d/@width for small screens

[Jeremy Sylvestre]

See

https://sites.ualberta.ca/~jsylvest/pretext-dev/dl-small-screen.png

In this screenshot, the first dl has @width="medium" and the second has @width="wide".

You can see that the title of the item in the first dl is cramped into a restricted horizontal space because of the @width setting, but the title of the item in the second dl is nicely laid out on a single line.

I propose that dl/@width should be ignored for small screens, and instead default to "wide". The list item's content is vertically displaced from the title, so there doesn't seem to be a reason to restrict the width of the title in that layout.

Cheers,

Jeremy S

[Oscar Levin]

This makes a lot of sense to me!  I likely won't have time to make this change soon though, so perhaps an issue or PR would be best at this point.

Oscar.

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[Rob Beezer]

Yes, I think it is right to regard @width in this context as a "hint".

So in a special situation like a very small screen, we can take matters into our
own hands.

@Jeremy - if you want to make a PR we can probably get it in quite quickly.

Rob

On 1/8/26 14:41, Jeremy Sylvestre wrote:
> See
>
> https://sites.ualberta.ca/~jsylvest/pretext-dev/dl-small-screen.png <https://
> sites.ualberta.ca/~jsylvest/pretext-dev/dl-small-screen.png>

>
> In this screenshot, the first dl has @width="medium" and the second has
> @width="wide".
>
> You can see that the title of the item in the first dl is cramped into a
> restricted horizontal space because of the @width setting, but the title of the
> item in the second dl is nicely laid out on a single line.
>
> I propose that dl/@width should be ignored for small screens, and instead
> default to "wide". The list item's content is vertically displaced from the
> title, so there doesn't seem to be a reason to restrict the width of the title
> in that layout.
>
> Cheers,
> Jeremy S
>

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