Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Problem with <entrytbl>

[Giuseppe Greco <giuseppe dot greco at fantastic dot com>]

OK.

Thanks again.

Giuseppe

On Mon, 2001-12-17 at 16:32, Jirka Kosek wrote:
> Giuseppe Greco wrote:
> > 
> > Instead of using the <entrytbl> element, I rewrote my
> > document using nested tables...
> > 
> > That works fine with HMTL backend, but I still have
> > problems with print backend.
> 
> As I said previously, do not use nested tables. Flatten them to single
> table with row-spans and columns-spans.
> 
> > <informaltable frame="none">
> >   <tgroup cols="1">
> >     <tbody>
> >       <row id="ref0001">
> >         <entry>
> >           <para>
> >             <informaltable frame="none">
> >               <tgroup cols="3">
> >                 <colspec colnum="1" colname="c1" colwidth="1*"/>
> >                 <colspec colnum="2" colname="c2" colwidth="2*"/>
> >                 <colspec colnum="3" colname="c3" colwidth="7*"/>
> 
> If you want something like 
> 
> ----------------------------
> |   A    |        B        |
> ----------------------------
> |        |    D    |  E    |
> -   C    -------------------
> |        |    F    |  G    |
> ----------------------------
> 
> you can use 2x2 table which contains another 2x2 table in one cell. But
> you can also create 3x2 table with some spans.
> 
> <table>
> <tgroup cols="3">
> <colspec colname="c1".../>
> <colspec colname="c2".../>
> <colspec colname="c3".../>
> <tbody>
> <row>
>   <entry>A</entry>
>   <entry namest="c2" namend="c3">B</entry>
> </row>
> <row>
>   <entry morerows="1">C</entry>
>   <entry>D</entry>
>   <entry>E</entry>
> </row>
> <row>
>   <entry>F</entry>
>   <entry>G</entry>
> </row>
> </tgroup>
> </table>
> 
> It is not as natural as nested tables, but should work with current
> tools.
> 
> 				Jirka
> 
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