Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: DocBook tables and FOP

[Jeff Iezzi <jeff dot iezzi at semanticedge dot com>]

On 15 Nov 2001, at 13:40, Petri Wessman wrote:

> It's probably related to the fact that FOP currently wants you to
> specify widths for tables, but I'm not sure. Anyone solved this? Or
> even hackup up some interim solution? :) 

Yes. I asked the same question last week.

To "fix" the problem, add <colspec colwidth=""/> to your table for 
each column. 

While trying to solve this problem myself, I learned that FOP will 
not handle proportional measures (1*) correctly. Norm's FOP style 
sheets convert this information, but FOP does not yet support 
proportional widths. (Norm's HTML style sheets, however, handle 
proportional measures quite well).

My current solution is as follows: 

<table frame="all" pgwide="1">
	<title>Typographical Conventions</title>
	<tgroup cols="3" align="left">
	  <colspec colwidth="3cm"/>
	  <colspec colwidth="6cm"/>
	  <colspec colwidth="5cm"/>
	  <thead>
	    <row>
	      <entry>Convention</entry>
	      <entry>Meaning</entry>
	      <entry>Example</entry>
	    </row>
	  </thead>
         ...

With this markup, the tables display in HTML and FOP quite well. 

I hope this helps. 

jeff


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