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Re: need help with Passivetex errors (part 1 of 2))
- From: Norman Walsh <ndw at nwalsh dot com>
- To: Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian dot rahtz at computing-services dot oxford dot ac dot uk>
- Cc: Dennis Grace <dgrace at us dot ibm dot com>, Janning Vygen <vygen at gmx dot de>,docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 16:13:03 -0400
- Subject: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: need help with Passivetex errors (part 1 of 2))
- References: <OF97EE4900.CA5FE3B5-ON85256C31.005B7DD4@pok.ibm.com><20020911190203.GC890@spqr-dell>
/ Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian.rahtz@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk> was heard to say:
| I am very aware that PassiveTeX has serious problems rendering tables.
| It does do a plausible job if you supply column widths, of course,
| but I don't think the Docbook stuff does this. In the TEI stylesheets
| I work out column widths when I make FO.
If you have extensions enabled and you specify the
nominal.table.width, then you'll get absolute column widths.
Sebastian, if you found a way to deal with relative column widths
(width="3*+2pc") without an extension function, I'd be delighted to
steal the code :-)
Be seeing you,
norm
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