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Re: DOCBOOKAPPS: Is there any ENTRYTBL in ANY printstylsheets?
- To: Norman Walsh <ndw at nwalsh dot com>
- Subject: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: DOCBOOKAPPS: Is there any ENTRYTBL in ANY printstylsheets?
- From: Sean Donnellan <sean at donnellan dot de>
- Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 16:38:23 +0200 (MEST)
- Cc: docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org
On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Norman Walsh wrote:
> [This is a docbook-apps issue, follow-ups there, please. --moderator]
>
> | P.s. How do I make the above table look decent in print? why does the
> | literallayout not work?
>
> This is an ugly, and difficult to handle bug, that effects the very first
> element child of a table cell. The easy answer, if you're generating the
> data is to put the literllayout inside a para:
>
> <entry><para><literallayout>...
>
> The problem is that, in order to get alignment and other things right,
> the contents of an entry is always placed inside a para. But then if I
> put a para in a para, the spacing is wrong. So the table code cheats
> and throws away the top-level wrapper inside an entry. But if this
> wrapper had important formatting, that gets lost, too. Ugh!
>
Thanks for the answer on the table morerows even though it wasn't what I
wanted to read :-)
How come the literallayout seems(!) to work on html output?
Sean