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 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.

Best regards, Julian