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Re: recursive table?
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- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: recursive table?
- From: Norman Walsh <ndw at nwalsh dot com>
- Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 10:57:30 -0500
- References: <000501bf446c$8e2f8960$af14c380@koala.ics.uci.edu>
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/ Chang Liu <liu@ics.uci.edu> was heard to say:
| Is there a way to embed a table within another table in DocBook?
| In HTML, tables can appear in a cell of other tables. I tried to
| do the same thing in DocBook but can't pass the compiler. Is
| this feature supported?
No. It is explicitly prevented. You can put 'entrytbl's inside
'entry's, but that's only a single level.
In general, nested tables are very, very difficult to format.
(HTML "succeeds" because it provides only fairly coarse controls
on table formatting.)
Cheers,
norm
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