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Re: tables and merging cells
- From: "Bob Stayton" <bobs at sagehill dot net>
- To: "Emma Jane Hogbin" <emmajane at xtrinsic dot com>, "DocBook" <docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org>
- Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 08:33:59 -0700
- Subject: Re: tables and merging cells
- References: <20040722145920.GB9034@smeagol>
This reference has examples of cell spanning that work in the XSL
stylesheets. Is he using XSL or DSSSL?
http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/CellSpans.html
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
DocBook Consulting
bobs@sagehill.net
----- Original Message -----
From: "Emma Jane Hogbin" <emmajane@xtrinsic.com>
To: "DocBook" <docbook@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2004 7:59 AM
Subject: tables and merging cells
> Hello,
>
> A friend of mine was telling me about a problem he's having with DocBook
> tables. He's been unable to successfully merge cells in his documents. I
> agreed to help him track down the problem. I scanned through the
> docbook.org site but I haven't been able to figure out this problem.
>
> http://docbook.org/tdg/en/html/entry.html
> MoreRows would "merge" down, I think?
>
> Under the Process Expectations I see that it must be possible to merge
> cells:
> The content of Entry is formatted to fit within the table cell that it
> occupies. Horizontal and vertical spanning may allow the content of an
> Entry to occupy several physical cells.
>
> ...but I don't understand how. Is there a tutorial that someone could
> point me towards?
>
> thanks!
> emma
>
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> Emma Jane Hogbin
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>
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