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Re: [docbook] How to format a check-list like output.


That's it.

Many thanks.

I made it like this :

<variablelist>
<?dbfo list-presentation="blocks"?>
  <varlistentry>
    <term><filename>ANTI ICE ................. AS RQRD</filename></term>
    <listitem>
      <para>
        Set ENG ANTI ICE pb-switches and WING ANTI ICE etc etc
      </para>
    </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
</variablelist>

I realise the "filename" part is a too "WYSIWYG" approach, but the
result is satisfactory.

In fact this solution was in your book. Concerning this book, it was
nearly a cause of divorce. I spend hours reading it (the online version
... but I order the paper copy), to the great despair of my wife ;-)
Seriously, it is a really good tool, well written and above all
understandable by somebody (like me) with nearly no XML-magics
knowledge.

Concerning the mail send by Steve Cogorno with the same subject :

> But in the true spirit of descriptive markup, you might want to create
> your
> own markup structure as an extension.  It will make more sense to your
> authors and to anyone who might consume your SGML/XML later.

It will be good (better than "filename" in the example above), but such
an operation is for the moment above my skills.

Thanks a lot.

Phil


Le lun 27/10/2003 à 18:49, Bob Stayton a écrit :
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 06:40:17PM +0100, Philippe CHARLIER wrote:
> > Le lun 27/10/2003 à 05:23, waldron.Navix@canon.co.jp a écrit :
> > > Try using "variablelist" for your checklist. If you know how to also
> > write your
> > > own XSL files for transformation, you can create some pretty good
> > results to
> > > satisfy your requirements.
> > > Hope that helps.
> > > 
> > > Dee
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Seems good.
> > In html, with some CSS tweaking the result is correct.
> > In pdf (generated by fop 0.20.5, DTD 4.2, XSL stylesheet 1.60.1) I get 2
> > columns.
> > 
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > ENG ANTI ICE           If icing conditions description text blah blah
> > ...................   description text blah blah description text blah
> > ................ AS   blah description text blah blah description text
> > RQRD                   blah blah
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > I suppose that I need some XSL tweaking here ?
> 
> That's the normal presentation for variablelist.
> Try adding this to your variablelist:
> 
> <?dbfo list-presentation="blocks"?>
> 
> That will format the "ENG .. RQRD" stuff in a separate
> fo:block above the description rather than next to it.
> 
> 
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