Hi Paul,
In general the horizontal spacing of the list items does not automatically adjust.
But the stylesheet provides options to adjust it, both globally with a param and
locally with a PI. See:
http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/ListSpacing.html#ListHorizSpacing
Regarding the alternating
I have a report from a user who is using FOP 1.0 of a problem with
items (i.e., items labeled with numbers): The spacing between the
item number label and the item text does not adjust, so that when the numbering
reaches 10 (two digits), the number label begins to overlap the text.
I tried it