Hi Robert Here is what works for me. <informaltable frame="all">
<tgroup cols="3"> <colspec colname="c1" colwidth="1*+1pc"/> <colspec colname="c2" colwidth="2*+1pc"/> <colspec colname="c3" colwidth="2*+1pc"/> . . . . </informaltable> If you want the table to show up in the TOC or list of Tables use "table." Cheers Paul On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 10:29 AM, Robert Nagle <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm delivering a doc for a client that has a lot of tables. Output will be > primarily PDF. Although I use XEP with Oxygen to output the PDF, my client > wants to use only open source tools to generate their PDF. (ie. > apache-fop). The client would also like HTML output -- it's less critical > but nice-to-have. > > I'm somewhat new to CALS tables, so I've been learning about how to do > borders and to set column width. > > IN the description of colspec, ( > http://docbook.org/tdg51/en/html/colspec.html), I see no description of > values for this. But Oxygen's table wizard and Bob's example ( > http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/Borders.html ) uses > colwidth="1.0*" . I have no idea what that means. Can someone explain? In > particular, what does that asterisk mean? > > When colwidth="1.0*", the default CALS table appears to be making every > column of equal width, which is not particularly good for me. If I remove > all the colwidth attributes, then the PDF defaults to everything having > the same width. > > For CALS tables, do I need to specify column width in cm or inches? > > My main reason for going for CALS over HTML tables is that I can't get > HTML tables to put borders anywhere on the PDF output. (Can anyone confirm > this?) On the other hand, if I use CALS tables, what happens to the HTML > output? (Does it just make the width dynamic?) > > Finally, if I assume that colwidth has some auto-size feature (probably > not?), what kind of support can I expect from Apache-FOP? > > Thanks. > > > -- > Robert Nagle > 6121 Winsome Ln #56C, Houston TX 77057-5581 > (H) 713 893 3424/ (W) 832-251-7522 Carbon Neutral Since Jan 2010 > http://www.robertnagle.info >
