It helps if you link to an example document (source and rendered) so we can see what you're seeing. With that said, I have a pretty good idea of what you're talking about.
It's very important to understand that once you convert to DocBook, what happens from there (converting to PDF) pertains to the DocBook toolchain, not AsciiDoc. That means you have to understand how to customize the formatting in the DocBook toolchain. If you are converting to PDF using Apache FOP (e.g., `a2x -f pdf --fop` or `fopub`), than you have to customize either the XSLT parameters or, more likely, the XSLT templates themselves to achieve the formatting you want. The formatting you describe is the out of the box behavior. It's also possible to get wider tables. But again, that's going to require hacking on the formatting templates used by the PDF generator. For example, here's how I customize the tables when creating the Asciidoctor styling for Apache FOP: https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor-fopub/blob/master/src/dist/docbook-xsl/fo-pdf.xsl#L393 Needless to say, it's complicated (which is why publishing houses charge so much for this work). That's why I've been working on a programmatic converter to PDF in Asciidoctor ( https://github.com/opendevise/asciidoctor-pdf). It may require some programming skills to customize the output, but at least it's a reasonable amount of work. -Dan On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 8:02 AM, Mats Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > The documents I render from asciidoctor have headings starting much > further to the left than the body text. Is there any way to create tables > that are wider than the body text and also start at the left margin where > the headers do? > I render from asciidoctor to docbook to pdf. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "asciidoc" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Dan Allen | http://google.com/profiles/dan.j.allen -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "asciidoc" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
