Hi,
Indeed, the template for table entry is a monster template. But it
contains a hook that lets you apply formatting properties without
needing to copy and modify that big template. The hook is a call to the
template named 'table.cell.properties'. That template can be customized
to insert properties such as background color. This section in my book
describes it in more detail:
http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/PrintTableStyles.html#table.cell.properties
If you copy that template to your customization layer, you can use the
template param named "col", whose value will be set to 1 for the first
column cells.
If you only want this for some tables, then you can add a tabstyle
attribute to the table element, such as tabstyle="firstcolumn". Then
you can use this in the 'table.cell.properties' template as follows:
<!-- add this variable declaration -->
<xsl:variable name="tabstyle">
<xsl:call-template name="tabstyle"/>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="ancestor::tgroup">
<!-- add the following three lines -->
<xsl:if test="$tabstyle = 'firstcolumn' and $col = 1">
<xsl:attribute name="background-color">#BBBBBB</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:if>
...
Let me know if you need more details.
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
[email protected]
On 2/25/2014 9:22 AM, Peter Desjardins wrote:
I see here (http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/BGtableColor.html) that
you could apply a "dbfo bgcolor" processing instruction to each entry
element in your XML source. That doesn't sound very pleasant though.
I would start by trying to customize the XSLT that writes FO elements
for tables. The way you do this depends on the specific DocBook
elements you are using for tables. If you use d:entry elements, it
looks like the <xsl:template match="d:entry|d:entrytbl" name="entry">
template in fo/tables.xsl might be a good place to experiment.
It looks like a fairly intricate template and it already does some
calculations based on columns. There are probably several ways to
identify the first entry in each row. When you figure out a way to do
that, try altering the bgcolor variable value.
I hope that's a little helpful.
Peter
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Rogério Rosa
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hey,
I am trying to generate a PDF.
Rogério
On Feb 25, 2014, at 3:59 PM, Peter Desjardins <[email protected]>
wrote:
What format is your output? HTML, PDF, something else?
Peter
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 10:19 AM, Rogério Rosa
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hello,
I am trying to set a different background colour for the first column in a
table, however I am not managing to do it. There is anyone that can help me ?
Thanks in advance.
Rogério
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