On Aug 8, 6:25 am, Stuart Rackham <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Gustav
>
> On 07/08/10 10:44, Gustav Broberg wrote:
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> > Hi Stuart!
>
> > Here's a little idea:
>
> > With release 0.3 of dblatex it is now possible to set the table width
> > using a processing instruction. [1] This means that you now can have
> > tables with a width other than 100% using the dblatex backend without
> > having to use
> > the "pageunits=pt" workaround [2].
>
> >> From what I can see the change required to support this is adding:
>
> > <?dblatex table-width="{width}"?>
>
> > to the [table] section in docbook.conf where you today have:
>
> > # DocBook XSL Stylesheets custom processing instructions.
> > <?dbhtml table-width="{width}"?>
> > <?dbfo table-width="{width}"?>
>
> > The width syntax for dblatex should be the same as for the others. [3]
> > Unfortunately I'm not sure if adding this could cause regressions for
> > other backends...?
>
> I've installed dblatex 0.3 and added your suggestion to the docbook.conf file,
> it works and it won't cause any regression problem (unrecognized processing
> instructions are simply ignored by downstream processors). Users currently 
> using
> absolute column widths with the pageunits attribute won't be affected either.
> The new scheme is better because you don't have to set the pagewidth and it 
> gets
> it right regardless of the page width.
>
> Thank you for your suggestion, I've committed it to the 
> trunk:http://code.google.com/p/asciidoc/source/detail?r=30e71fc5c58a4e5f81d...
>

Thanks for adding this, it works like a charm! :)

/Gustav

> Cheers, Stuart
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> > 1.http://dblatex.sourceforge.net/doc/release-notes/sec-changes-03.html
> > 2.http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/faq.html#_why_don_8217_t_tables_gen...
> > 3.http://dblatex.sourceforge.net/doc/manual/ch03s05.html#sec-table-width
>
> > Thanks for AsciiDoc!
>
> > --
> > Gustav Broberg
>
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