[publican-list] Advice please

[Murray McAllister]

Mike McGrath wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Oct 2008, Karsten 'quaid' Wade wrote:
>> It might be that Mike needs to move to a different construct, or use a
>> different tabling style.  The goal is for visual parsing by humans,
>> right?  That is, you aren't trying to use a table in the database sense,
>> correct?
>>
>> I'm thinking of stuff such as column and row spanning.
>>
> 
> The goal is visual parsing by humans.  Ideally it will look like something
> that people can print up, easily scan for each item and check it off as
> done.  I've been looking a bit at variable lists too though it seems each
> varlistentry can only have one list item.
> 
> 	-Mike
> 
I'm not a design person, so this might be totally wrong. If you want to 
check things off, you could try an orderedlist inside a variabelist:

	<varlistentry><term>This is a varlist term</term>
		<listitem>
			<orderedlist>
				<listitem>
					<para>
						Item 1
					</para>
				</listitem>
				<listitem>
					<para>
						Item 2
					</para>
				</listitem>
			</orderedlist>
		</listitem>
	</varlistentry>
	</variablelist>

When built it looks as such:

This is a varlist term
	1. Item 1
	2. Item 2

If you wanted more than one listitem, you can use an itemizedlist, but 
this places a ">>" point next to each one. You can override what is used 
with "itemizedlist mark=", but I couldn't figure out how to make the 
mark disappear.

"An ItemizedList is a list in which every item is marked with a bullet, 
dash, or other dingbat, or no mark at all."[1], so I guess it is possible.

Good luck!

[1] <http://docs.hp.com/en/B1171-90154/ch03s02.html>