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Re: [docbook-apps] making tables float
- From: "Bob Stayton" <bobs at sagehill dot net>
- To: "Michael Weiser" <michael at weiser dot dinsnail dot net>,<docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org>
- Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 10:55:36 -0800
- Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] making tables float
- References: <20040205204004.GA89925@weiser.dinsnail.net>
Your hack solution will have to do for now.
In the current 4.2 DocBook DTD, only figure and informalfigure
take a float attribute. You could put an informaltable inside
a figure, and add a float="left" attribute to the figure element.
But then your table would have a 'Figure' label instead of
a table label.
The XSL stylesheets are supposed to output an fo:float element
when the float attribute is nonzero. But there is a bug in the current
stylesheets
(fixed in CVS) that prevents a float attribute other than '1'
being recognized.
Also, I hope you aren't using FOP. When I put a figure in <fo:float>
in FOP, the whole thing simply disappeared.
Coming up in the 4.3 DTD, tables, examples, and other display items
will accept a new floatstyle attribute. When the stylesheets are
updated for the new DTD, then you will be able to properly
specify a float.
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
DocBook Consulting
bobs@sagehill.net
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Weiser" <michael@weiser.dinsnail.net>
To: <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 12:40 PM
Subject: [docbook-apps] making tables float
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to get tables to float using the docbook-xsl-stylesheets for
> FO output. Up to now my hack solution is to add an fo:float to a custom
> copy of the table template which is hardly a proper solution.
>
> Is there a better way of doing this?
>
> Thanks again.
> --
> bye, Michael
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