Re: term in <variablelist> is rendered incorrectly in PDF

>>>>> Bob Stayton <>:

> What I *really* would like to be able to do is measure the formatted
> width of the terms.  But I don't think there is a way to do that
> with the separation of stylesheet and FO processing.  Only the FO
> processor knows how wide the formatted terms are, and it cannot set
> the list-block property values.

But you do know whether the text is monospaced or proportional, don't
you?  Isn't it possible to use that information to adjust the value?