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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>