From: Toshiro Kuwabara <toshirok@...3.so-net.ne.jp>
Date: 1999-08-21T02:03:15+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:00723] Re: Summary of discussion about RD (Re: Docum entation about RD?)

Hi,

> Oh! I was not aware that the discussion was about all list types. I've
> thought it was only about DescList. :-/
> 
> But here we are:
> 
> (1)first element
>    |<-- baseline
>    dksf fldskjf lsdk
> (1)   second element
>       |<-- baseline
>       sdlfk fsdlsfk
> 
> *first element
>  |<-- baseline
> *   second element
>     |<-- baseline
>     df=F6kjsdfksf lsdkf df
> 
> Is that what you have asked for, or is there any other misunderstanding
> on my side? :-/

No, all right. I understand your proposal.
But, many browser (WWW User Agent) show DL 
like this (case of W3-mode of Emacs):

>|    ItemListElement
>|
>|      not-ordered List. Item starts "*".
>|
>|    EnumListElement
>|
>|      ordered, numbered List. Item starts such as "(1)".
>|
>|    DescListElement
>|
>|      Grossary type List. Term part of item starts ":"....

Look! baseline of Term-part is more left than baseline of Definition-part
is.
So, I suppose that it is not good to define baseline according to Term-part.

---
Tosh