<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.table"> <refmeta> <refentrytitle>variablelist.as.table</refentrytitle> <refmiscinfo class="other" otherclass="datatype">boolean</refmiscinfo> </refmeta> <refnamediv> <refname>variablelist.as.table</refname> <refpurpose>Format <tag>variablelist</tag>s as tables?</refpurpose> </refnamediv> <refsynopsisdiv> <src:fragment xml:id="variablelist.as.table.frag"> <xsl:param name="variablelist.as.table" select="0"/> </src:fragment> </refsynopsisdiv> <refsection><info><title>Description</title></info> <para>If non-zero, <tag>variablelist</tag>s will be formatted as tables. A processing instruction exists to specify a particular width for the column containing the <tag>term</tag>s: <tag class="xmlpi">dbhtml term-width=".25in"</tag></para> <para>You can override this setting with a processing instruction as the child of <tag>variablelist</tag>: <tag class="xmlpi">dbhtml list-presentation="table"</tag> or <tag class="xmlpi">dbhtml list-presentation="list"</tag>.</para> <para>This parameter only applies to the HTML transformations. In the FO case, proper list markup is robust enough to handle the formatting. But see also <parameter>variablelist.as.blocks</parameter>.</para> <programlisting> <variablelist> <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?> <?dbhtml term-width="1.5in"?> <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?> <?dbfo term-width="1in"?> <varlistentry> <term>list</term> <listitem> <para> Formatted as a table even if variablelist.as.table is set to 0. </para> </listitem> </varlistentry> </variablelist></programlisting> </refsection> </refentry>