variablelist
variablelist — A list in which each entry is composed of a set of one or more terms and an associated description.
Synopsis
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- Sequence of:
- One of:
- Zero or more of:
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- Admonition elements
- Formal elements
- Graphic elements
- Informal elements
- List elements
- Paragraph elements
- Publishing elements
- Technical elements
- Verbatim elements
- One or more of:
- One of:
Attributes
Common attributes and common linking attributes.
Additional attributes:
- spacing (enumeration)
- “compact”
- “normal”
- termlength
Description
A variablelist is a list consisting of
terms and their definitions or descriptions.
Processing expectations
Formatted as a displayed block.
There are many ways to present a variable list. DocBook does not
mandate any particular presentation. The termlength attribute may influence the
presentation of terms. The termlength attribute is often specified as
a number of characters, but other forms are possible. This is an interchange issue.
Attributes
Common attributes and common linking attributes.
- spacing
Specifies (a hint about) the spacing of the content
Enumerated values: “compact” The spacing should be "compact".
“normal” The spacing should be "normal".
- termlength
Indicates a length beyond which the presentation system may consider a term too long and select an alternate presentation for that term, item, or list
Parents
These elements contain variablelist: acknowledgements, answer, appendix, article, bibliodiv, bibliography, bibliolist, blockquote, callout, calloutlist, caption, chapter, colophon, cover, dedication, dialogue, drama, entry, example, figure, footnote, glossary, glossdef, glossdiv, glosslist, index, informalexample, informalfigure, itemizedlist, legalnotice, linegroup, listitem, note, orderedlist, para, partintro, poetry, preface, procedure, qandadiv, qandaset, question, revdescription, section, setindex, sidebar, simplesect, step, taskprerequisites, taskrelated, tasksummary, textobject, toc, variablelist.
Children
The following elements occur in variablelist: address, anchor, bibliolist, blockquote, bridgehead, calloutlist, dialogue, drama, epigraph, equation, example, figure, formalpara, glosslist, indexterm (db.indexterm.endofrange), indexterm (db.indexterm.singular), indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange), info (db.titleforbidden.info), info (db.titleonly.info), informalequation, informalexample, informalfigure, informaltable, itemizedlist, literallayout, mediaobject, note, orderedlist, para, poetry, procedure, qandaset, remark, revhistory, sidebar, simpara, simplelist, table, task, title, titleabbrev, variablelist, varlistentry.
See Also
calloutlist, itemizedlist, listitem, orderedlist, segmentedlist, simplelist
Examples
<article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
<title>Example variablelist</title>
<variablelist><title>Font Filename Extensions</title>
<varlistentry>
<term><filename>TTF</filename></term>
<listitem>
<para>TrueType fonts.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><filename>PFA</filename></term>
<term><filename>PFB</filename></term>
<listitem>
<para>
PostScript fonts. <filename>PFA</filename> files are common
on <acronym>UNIX</acronym> systems, <filename>PFB</filename>
files are more common on Windows systems.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</article>
TTFTrueType fonts.
PFA,PFBPostScript fonts.
PFAfiles are common on UNIX systems,PFBfiles are more common on Windows systems.