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Awesome demo!

I agree - formalpara looks good.

Others?

Regards,

Tom

On 06/08/13 13:30, David Cramer wrote:
> Ok, I've prepared a demo with three ways you might format something like
> this (there are probably others, but these are three to consider):
>
> The first is a variablelist formatted as a table (you can control the
> presentation with PIs, like so: <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?> You
> can find more info about variablelist formatting here:
> http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/Variablelists.html):
>
> http://feline.thingbag.net/docbook/dbexample/variablelist-table-ch_limitations.xml
>
> http://feline.thingbag.net/docbook/dbexample/limitations/content/ch_limitation-variablelist-table.html
>
> Honestly, I'm not wild about it though.
>
> Here's another presentation of the same variablelist but instead using
> the PIs: <?dbhtml list-presentation="list"?><?dbfo
> list-presentation="blocks"?>
>
> http://feline.thingbag.net/docbook/dbexample/variablelist-list-ch_limitations.xml
>
> http://feline.thingbag.net/docbook/dbexample/limitations/content/ch_limitation-variablelist-list.html
>
> Actually, in this case, I'd actually prefer to use formalparas:
>
> http://feline.thingbag.net/docbook/dbexample/formalpara-ch_limitations.xml
>
> http://feline.thingbag.net/docbook/dbexample/limitations/content/ch_limitation-formalpara.html
>
> Note that the formalpara automatically adds the locale-appropriate
> punctuation to the runinhead.
>
> I find myself using the itemizedlist + formalpara construct frequently,
> in cases like the one we have here and also when converting content from
> some unstructured format where the original author created a bunch of
> headings with one sentence or one para as its content. What they really
> wanted was some kind of list with some bold text introducing it so they
> abuse headings.
>
> Regards,
> David
>
> On 08/05/2013 05:48 PM, David Cramer wrote:
>> On 08/05/2013 05:36 PM, Tom Fifield wrote:
>>> On 06/08/13 01:57, Christian Berendt wrote:
>>>> On 08/04/2013 07:03 PM, Anne Gentle wrote:
>>>>> Christian, does that sound good to you? Tom and Stephen and other
>>>>> knowledgeable docbook markup folks, does that markup sound right to you?
>>>>
>>>> Sounds good to me. I'll abandon change #39712 and will open a new one
>>>> transforming the list to a table tomorrow.
>>>
>>> Just registering OKness with the result :)
>>
>> Actually wait, don't use a table. Let me work up an email with some
>> suggestions using either variablelist or itemizedlist with formalparas.
>> I need to look up something in variablelists first though.
>>
>> David
>>
>