<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"><title>variablelist.max.termlength</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../reference.css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.78.1"><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="DocBook XSL Stylesheets: Reference Documentation"><link rel="up" href="lists.html" title="Lists"><link rel="prev" href="orderedlist.label.width.html" title="orderedlist.label.width"><link rel="next" href="variablelist.term.separator.html" title="variablelist.term.separator"><link rel="copyright" href="copyright.html" title="License"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">variablelist.max.termlength</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="orderedlist.label.width.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Lists</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="variablelist.term.separator.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="refentry"><a name="variablelist.max.termlength"></a><div class="titlepage"></div> <div class="refnamediv"><h2><span class="refentrytitle">variablelist.max.termlength</span></h2><p> variablelist.max.termlength — Specifies the longest term in variablelists </p></div> <div class="refsynopsisdiv"><h2>Synopsis</h2> <a name="variablelist.max.termlength.frag"></a><pre class="programlisting"> <xsl:param name="variablelist.max.termlength">24</xsl:param> </pre> </div> <div class="refsection"><a name="idp4669584"></a><h2>Description</h2> <p>In variablelists, the <a href="http://docbook.org/tdg5/en/html/listitem.html"><code class="sgmltag-element">listitem</code></a> is indented to leave room for the <a href="http://docbook.org/tdg5/en/html/term.html"><code class="sgmltag-element">term</code></a> elements. That indent may be computed if it is not specified with a <code class="sgmltag-attribute">termlength</code> attribute on the <a href="http://docbook.org/tdg5/en/html/variablelist.html"><code class="sgmltag-element">variablelist</code></a> element. </p> <p> The computation counts characters in the <a href="http://docbook.org/tdg5/en/html/term.html"><code class="sgmltag-element">term</code></a> elements in the list to find the longest term. However, some terms are very long and would produce extreme indents. This parameter lets you set a maximum character count. Any terms longer than the maximum would line wrap. The default value is 24. </p> <p> The character counts are converted to physical widths by multiplying by 0.50em. There will be some variability in how many actual characters fit in the space since some characters are wider than others. </p> </div> </div><div class="navfooter"><hr><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="orderedlist.label.width.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="lists.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="variablelist.term.separator.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">orderedlist.label.width </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> variablelist.term.separator</td></tr></table></div></body></html>