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Re: [xml2rfc-dev] RFC 7991 issue #39: Schema Issue, RFC 7991, New Section 2.20.4, "indent" Attribute

Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@icann.org> Wed, 03 October 2018 23:10 UTC

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On 1 Oct 2018, at 4:36, henrik@levkowetz.com wrote:

> This captures an issue noted during implementation, also described in
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-levkowetz-xml2rfc-v3-implementation#section-3.1.4
>
> ---
> New Section 2.20.4, "indent" Attribute
>
>    The deprecation of the "hangIndent" attribute on <list> leaves no
>    opportunity to control the size of the hanging indent.  In some
>    definition lists, it is desirable to have a wide indentation, in order
>    to clearly show the terms, in other cases it is more important to allow
>    for a larger text volume than the width of the terms would allow.
>
>    Recommendation:  Add an "indent" attribute on <dl> to control the size
>                     of the hanging indent.
>
>    Implementation:  The current version of xml2rfc does not support the
>                     attribute, but has all the underlying functions needed
>                     to apply such an attribute.  Internally, an indentation
>                     is calculated based on length of the <dt> text and the
>                     settings of some of the other attributes.

This could be done where the value of the "indent" attribute is always em units (from CSS).

--Paul Hoffman

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