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

[Julian Reschke <[e-mail]>]

On 10/1/2018 2:39 PM, Henrik Levkowetz wrote:
> Hi Julian,
> 
> On 2018-10-01 14:09, Julian Reschke wrote:
>> On 10/1/2018 1:36 PM, [e-mail] 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.
>>> ---
>>> ...
>>
>> I agree that this would be useful - however we'll need to define it in a
>> way that works well with non-monospaced fonts.
> 
> Agreed.
> 
> What about specifying indentation as a number that would indicate characters
> in monospaced output, and en-space otherwise?

Works for me.

Best regards, Julian