RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: Table problems in FO

[Jeff Beal <jeff dot beal at ansys dot com>]

Title: Personal Stationery

I've been able to resolve both of these issues by making these two customizations in the 1.58.1 XSL Stylesheets:

 

In the template named inherited.table.attribute in common/table.xsl, change the variable named default.value to:

  <xsl:variable name="default.value">
    <!-- rowsep and colsep have defaults based ultimately on the frame setting -->
    <!-- handle those here, for everything else, the default is the tgroup value -->
    <xsl:choose>
      <xsl:when test="$tgroup.value != ''">
        <xsl:value-of select="$tgroup.value"/>
      </xsl:when>
      <xsl:when test="$attribute = 'rowsep'">
        <xsl:value-of select="1"/>
      </xsl:when>
      <xsl:when test="$attribute = 'colsep'">
        <xsl:value-of select="1"/>
      </xsl:when>
      <xsl:otherwise><!-- empty --></xsl:otherwise>
    </xsl:choose>
  </xsl:variable>

 

In the template matching tgroup in fo/table.xsl, change the default.table.width from 100% to 'auto'.

 

Please note that I've only tested these changes with our content and XEP.  I don't see why the first change would cause problems with any processor or content, but the second change might.

 

Jeff Beal

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Beal [mailto:jeff.beal@ansys.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 11:17 AM
To: DocBook Mailing List (E-mail)
Subject: DOCBOOK-APPS: Table problems in FO

I'm starting to work with throwing our documentation through XEP for PDF output, and I'm running into a few problems with tables. 

 

First, if I don't specifically specify a rowsep or colsep on the tgroup, the FO stylesheets are not drawing cell borders.  I've been poking around for a bit, and this line from the CALS specification seems to indicate that the default value for these should be 1: "Default = IMPLIED, (means use value from tgroupstyle if any, else from <table> if any, else '1')." ). "  (http://www.oasis-open.org/specs/a502.htm).  When I do specify a rowsep or colsep as 1, the cell borders appear correctly, so I'm assuming this is a stylesheet bug and not a XEP bug.

 

My other problem is a little stickier.  It involves table widths.  We have been using absolute column widths on all of our tables (2,392 of them, to be exact.) and our current print engine (Epic 3.0.1) determines the table width based on the sum of the column widths.  The XSL stylesheets don't do that.  Without turning on the tablecolumn.extensions, we get columns that extend past the edge of the table, or gaps between the edge of the rightmost column and the leftmost column.  With the tablecolumn.extensions, we get a lot of tables that look either compressed or stretched.

 

I think I can fix the first problem by overriding the inherit.table.attribute template, I'm just wondering if I should file a bug.  I'm a little bit more lost on the second problem.  I'm pretty sure that all of our column widths are expressed in inches, so I can just add them up.  I'm wondering, though, if anybody has any better suggestions for this problem.

 

Thanks,

 

Jeff Beal

Tools Specialist

ANSYS, Inc.

(724) 514-3150