<para>You can override this setting with a processing instruction as the
child of <sgmltag>variablelist</sgmltag>: <sgmltag class="pi">dbfo
list-presentation="blocks"</sgmltag> or <sgmltag class="pi">dbfo
-list-presentation="list"</sgmltag></para>
+list-presentation="list"</sgmltag>.</para>
+
+<para>When using <literal>list-presentation="list"</literal>,
+you can also control the amount of space used for the <sgmltag>term</sgmltag>s with
+the <sgmltag class="pi">dbfo term-width=".25in"</sgmltag> processing instruction,
+the <sgmltag class="attribute">termlength</sgmltag> attribute on <sgmltag>variablelist</sgmltag>,
+or allow the stylesheets to attempt to calculate the amount of space to leave based on the
+number of letters in the longest term.
+</para>
<programlisting><![CDATA[ <variablelist>
<?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
+ <?dbfo term-width="1.5in"?>
+ <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
+ <?dbhtml term-width="1.5in"?>
<varlistentry>
<term>list</term>
<listitem>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>]]></programlisting>
+
+
</refsect1>
</refentry>