Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: DocBook tables and FOP

[Jens Stavnstrup <js at ddre dot dk>]

I am still a little confused about this issue.

I have turned on the parameters use.extensios, tablecolumns.extension and
set the parameter default.table.width, but no do.

My parammeters in colspec colwidth="17*" , which I would expect to  be 17%
of 6 inches, but norms stylesheets (1.45) writes 17% in the table
column-width attribute of fo:table-column., allthough I am also including
saxon644.jar in my classpath. Am I missing something ?

Furthermore, the deault layout is of the stylesheets are "fixed", which is
not supported by FOP 0.20.1.

I have written a small template, which change a table to an informaltable
with a block text below, since FOP again do no support
fo:table-with-caption but only fo:table ! Doesn't any of you uses DocBook
table, or are you all using informaltable?

Norm, you wrote that you that you were going to write something about this
issue in the FAQ, where is that located ?

Regards

Jens


On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Norman Walsh wrote:

> / Jeff Iezzi <jeff.iezzi@semanticedge.com> was heard to say:
> | 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).
> 
> If you turn on the extensions I mentioned in my previous message and
> set default.table.width to some real measure (like '6in'), the proportional
> values should be converted correctly for you.
> 
> You can override the stylesheet default width with a PI:
> 
> ...
> <tgroup>
>   <?dbfo table-width="3in"?>
>   ...
> 
> (Dave/Bob, I'll try to write up an FAQ entry on this today.)
> 
>                                         Be seeing you,
>                                           norm
> 
> -- 
> Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>      | To create a little flower is the
> http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | labour of ages.--Blake
> Chair, DocBook Technical Committee |
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