>>>>> "Robert P. J. Day" <>:
[snip! 1.62]
> it seems to have something to do with hyphenation. if i create a
> variablelist term that has no obvious hyphenation, like "XXXXXX",
> then the PDF output looks like
> XXXXX whatever
> X
[snip! other examples]
I've observed that myself. Especially noticable with a monospaced
<term> in the <varlistentry>.
I was planning to give this one a try, to see what the results looked
like:
http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/doc/fo/variablelist.as.blocks.html
I haven't gotten around to it yet.