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


> -----Original Message-----
> From: xml2rfc-dev <xml2rfc-dev-bounces@ietf.org> On Behalf Of Julian
> Reschke
> Sent: Monday, October 1, 2018 6:06 AM
> To: Henrik Levkowetz <henrik@levkowetz.com>; xml2rfc-dev@ietf.org
> Subject: Re: [xml2rfc-dev] RFC 7991 issue #39: Schema Issue, RFC 7991, New
> Section 2.20.4, "indent" Attribute
> 
> 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, henrik@levkowetz.com wrote:
> >>> This captures an issue noted during implementation, also described
> >>> in
> >>> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-levkowetz-xml2rfc-v3-implementatio
> >>> n#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.

+1
Jim

> 
> Best regards, Julian
> 
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