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Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] one more bit of carping and whining about<variablelist>
On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Bob Stayton wrote: > On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 01:33:28PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: ... snip ... > > xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > xxxxx listitem here > > > > and so on. so is the example shown in TDG misleading? under what > > circumstances would that occur? or is that related to the change > > to "em * 0.60"? > > The formatting style you are referring to is called > "blocks" in the stylesheet. See: > > http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/ListIndents.html i have *got* to finish that book some day. > > second point is that, given multiple terms, the possible break > > to render them over two lines can be very badly chosen. with > > the two terms "/bin" and "/usr/bin", what i got was: > > > > /bin,/ > > usr/bin standard system executables > > > > yuck. > > Strange, when multiple term elements are used they > are separated by a comma and a space. It should > be breaking on the space, but it appears that > you don't have the space. i've definitely defined that varlistentry with two distinct terms: "/bin" and "/usr/bin" so i have no idea where the essential space would have gone. and i've tried both a regular font and monospaced font for those terms in case it had something to do with that, but it makes no difference. still puzzled. rday
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