Re: [Docutils-users] Definiton lists in the latex-writer

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On Thu, 28 Apr 2005, Morten Lied Johansen wrote:

>
> I'm writing my CV using reST, and have made one that looks nice for web. I 
> was thinking of making a PDF version for mailing to potential employers, but 
> when I run it through rst2latex.py and then use dvipdf, it messes up the 
> definition lists (which may not be the right choice, but it looks right in 
> the html-writer).
>
> When using the html-writer, the term is on a line by itself, and the 
> definition is in an indented paragraph underneath. In the latex-writer, the 
> term is set in bold, and then the definition follows *on the same line*. This 
> looks awful... :(

this is the latex does description for years now and i always thought
it superior to html definition lists.

> Is this how it's supposed to be, or is it a bug?

dont know. in your case, as you are using lineblocks i would tend
to bug, because the lineblock is a block and therefore should
start on a newline.
> Is it possible to fix using 
> the latex stylesheet?

maybe overwriting the lineblock definition ::

   \newenvironment{lineblock}[1]
{\begin{list}{}
   {\setlength{\partopsep}{\parskip}
    \addtolength{\partopsep}{\baselineskip}
    \topsep0pt\itemsep0.15\baselineskip\parsep0pt
    \leftmargin#1}
  \raggedright}
{\end{list}}

inserting a newline before begin{list} could possibly do it.
try {}\\ or \par ...

> I'm using the latest snapshot.
>
> The reST source is at http://ibidem.homeip.net/cv.rst
> The HTML result is at http://ibidem.homeip.net/cv.html
> The generated tex is at http://ibidem.homeip.net/cv.tex
> The generated PDF is at http://ibidem.homeip.net/cv.pdf

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