    | DocBook: The Definitive Guide Version 0.0.1 (Alpha) |
| | DocBook: The Definitive Guide Version 0.0.1 (Alpha) |
$Revision: 1.3 $
$Date: 2002/06/12 11:18:42 $
variablelist — A list in which each entry is composed of a set of one or more terms and an associated description
variablelist ::= ((title,titleabbrev?)?, varlistentry+)
Common attributes
Name | Type | Default |
| termlength | CDATA | None |
A VariableList is a list consisting of Terms and their definitions or descriptions.
Formatted as a displayed block.
There are many ways to deal with the problems presented in formatting a variable list with long Terms. DocBook does not mandate any particular presentation. The TermLength attribute may influence the presentation of Terms.
Introductory material may appear before the first list item.
These elements contain variablelist: appendix, article, bibliodiv, bibliography, blockquote, caption, entry, example, footnote, legalnotice, listitem, note, revdescription, section, sidebar, textobject.
The following elements occur in variablelist: title, titleabbrev, varlistentry.
TermLength indicates a length beyond which the presentation engine may consider the Term(s) too long and select an alternate presentation of the Term(s) and/or, the associated ListItem.
<!DOCTYPE variablelist PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd">
<variablelist><title>Font Filename Extensions</title>
<varlistentry><term><filename>TTF</filename></term>
<listitem>
<para>
TrueType fonts.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><filename>PFA</filename></term>
<term><filename>PFB</filename></term>
<listitem>
<para>
PostScript fonts. <filename>PFA</filename> files are common on
<acronym>UNIX</acronym> systems, <filename>PFB</filename> files
are more common on Windows systems.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>Font Filename Extensions
TrueType fonts.
PostScript fonts. PFA files are common on UNIX systems, PFB files are more common on Windows systems.