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-<refentry xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
- xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
- xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
- xmlns:src="http://nwalsh.com/xmlns/litprog/fragment"
- xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
- version="5.0" xml:id="variablelist.as.blocks">
-<refmeta>
-<refentrytitle>variablelist.as.blocks</refentrytitle>
-<refmiscinfo class="other" otherclass="datatype">boolean</refmiscinfo>
-</refmeta>
-<refnamediv>
-<refname>variablelist.as.blocks</refname>
-<refpurpose>Format <tag>variablelist</tag>s lists as blocks?</refpurpose>
-</refnamediv>
-
-<refsynopsisdiv>
-<src:fragment xml:id="variablelist.as.blocks.frag">
-<xsl:param name="variablelist.as.blocks" select="0"/>
-</src:fragment>
-</refsynopsisdiv>
-
-<refsection><info><title>Description</title></info>
-
-<para>If non-zero, <tag>variablelist</tag>s will be formatted as
-blocks.</para>
-
-<para>If you have long terms, proper list markup in the FO case may produce
-unattractive lists. By setting this parameter, you can force the stylesheets
-to produce block markup instead of proper lists.</para>
-
-<para>You can override this setting with a processing instruction as the
-child of <tag>variablelist</tag>: <tag class="xmlpi">dbfo
-list-presentation="blocks"</tag> or <tag class="xmlpi">dbfo
-list-presentation="list"</tag>.</para>
-
-<para>When using <literal>list-presentation="list"</literal>,
-you can also control the amount of space used for the <tag>term</tag>s with
-the <tag class="xmlpi">dbfo term-width=".25in"</tag> processing instruction,
-the <tag class="attribute">termlength</tag> attribute on <tag>variablelist</tag>,
-or allow the stylesheets to attempt to calculate the amount of space to leave based on the
-number of letters in the longest term.
-</para>
-
-<programlisting> <variablelist>
- <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
- <?dbfo term-width="1.5in"?>
- <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
- <?dbhtml term-width="1.5in"?>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>list</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Formatted as a list even if variablelist.as.blocks is set to 1.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist></programlisting>
-
-
-</refsection>
-
-</refentry>