Hi Dean, You said "wouldn't it make sense to allow a "rowsep" on a cell when the table has a frame="none" ?"
It does make sense, but DocBook tries to adhere as closely as possible to the CALS table standard, and that would require a change to the standard, which explicitly says the rowsep on the last row is to be ignored. Bob Stayton Sagehill Enterprises [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: DeanNelson To: Bob Stayton ; [email protected] Sent: Monday, September 07, 2009 7:52 PM Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Table Line Thickness Great - Thanks Bob. This all came about when I needed to render a table in PDF that had no borders, but had one cell on the bottom of the table that needed a bottom line, but I could not render it because the "rowsep" does not work on the bottom cell because the outer table line would overwrite it. Sooo... I decided to try to render that particular table a bit different, hence the question. But since I got you on the line, wouldn't it make sense to allow a "rowsep" on a cell when the table has a frame="none" ? Thanks, Dean Nelson In a message dated 09/05/09 16:26:20 Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Hi Dean, You could do it with a processing instruction, a tabstyle attribute is more appropriate. A tabstyle can be put on a table or informaltable element to indicate to the stylesheet that different styling is required. If you go with tabstyle, you can call a utility template named 'tabstyle' that returns the value of the attribute for the current table. The tabstyle template is described here: http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/PrintTableStyles.html#TabstyleTemplate To customize the frame borders, you would copy and edit the template named table.frame in fo/table.xsl to use an xsl:choose statement to select the frame thickness. An example of using xsl:choose with tabstyle for table cell properties is shown here: http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/PrintTableStyles.html#CustomCellProperties In the table.frame template, you could do that once at the top of the template to fill a variable, and then use that variable in place of $table.frame.border.thickness in the long set of frame choices that follow: <xsl:variable name="tabstyle"> <xsl:call-template name="tabstyle"/> </xsl:variable> <xsl:variable name="frame.thickness"> <xsl:choose> <xsl:when test="$tabstyle='thickborder'">2pt</xsl:when> <xsl:when test="$tabstyle='verythickborder'">4pt</xsl:when> <xsl:otherwise> <xsl:value-of select="$table.frame.border.thickness"/> </xsl:otherwise> </xsl:choose> </xsl:variable> And then replace all other instances in the template of $table.frame.border.thickness with $frame.thickness. If you need to also change the rowsep and colsep (cell borders), then customize the template named 'border' in fo/table.xsl with the same technique. Bob Stayton Sagehill Enterprises [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 5:34 PM Subject: [docbook-apps] Table Line Thickness Hello everyone, Is there a way to control the thickness of the border of each table separately? The common parameter only applies to ALL tables. Maybe an additional PI? Thanks Dean Nelson --------------------------------------------------------------------------
