You can format a glossary as a list with the terms to the left of the indented definition paragraphs, or as blocks with each term stacked above its unindented paragraph. By default, a glossary is formatted as a list. If you want to change all of your glossaries to format as blocks, set the glossary.as.blocks stylesheet parameter to a nonzero value. If you are using a glosslist instead of a glossary element, then use the glosslist.as.blocks parameter instead. You can also control how an individual glossary is presented by using a processing instruction inserted into that glossary element in your document. The following is an example:

<glossary><title>Glossary</title>
<?dbfo glossary-presentation="blocks" ?>
<glossentry>
 ...

You can set the value to list to format one glossary as a list when the parameter formats the rest as blocks. For a glosslist, the processing instruction name is glosslist-presentation, and it takes the same values. In all cases, the processing instruction overrides the stylesheet parameter for an individual glossary.

If your glossary is formatted as a list, you can control the indent of the definition paragraphs to allow space for the terms. The glossterm.width stylesheet parameter sets the indent for all glossary and glosslist elements. Its default value is 2in. You can also set the indent width for an individual glossary using a processing instruction, as in this example.

<glossary><title>Glossary</title>
<?dbfo glossterm-width="3.5cm" ?>
<glossentry>
...

For a glossary formatted as a list, you can also control the minimum size of the space separating the term from the paragraph. That value is controlled by the glossterm.separation parameter, and its default value is 0.25in. There is no processing instruction for this feature.