Schema Issue, RFC 7991, New Section 2.20.4, "indent" Attribute

[levkowetz]

New Section 2.20.4, "indent" Attribute

The deprecation of the "hangIndent" attribute on <list> leaves no
opportunity to control the size of the hanging indent. In some
definition lists, it is desirable to have a wide indentation, in order
to clearly show the terms, in other cases it is more important to allow
for a larger text volume than the width of the terms would allow.

Recommendation: Add an "indent" attribute on <dl> to control the size
of the hanging indent.

Implementation: The current version of xml2rfc does not support the
attribute, but has all the underlying functions needed
to apply such an attribute. Internally, an indentation
is calculated based on length of the <dt> text and the
settings of some of the other attributes.

[reschke]

I agree that this would be useful - however we'll need to define it in a way that works well with non-monospaced fonts.

[levkowetz]

Closed with acceptance of 'indent' attribute after discussion on the list:
https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/browse/xml2rfc-dev/?q=subject%3A%2339

[reschke]

@levkowetz - I note that xml2rfc supports "indent" on all list types, not only on <dl>. Is that intentional? What is the use case?