Thanks. I must have missed that page. That explained everything! Robert
On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 10:57 AM, Bob Stayton <[email protected]> wrote: > Here is the description of CALS table column widths: > > http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/ColumnWidths.html > > The * means proportional. > > Bob Stayton > Sagehill Enterprises > [email protected] > > > On 7/9/2014 5:59 AM, Robert Nagle 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 >> > -- 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
