On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 5:22 AM, Volker Haas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi Andrew,
> I assume that the problem is that the "treecleaner" module removes
> one-cell tables only keeping the content. This is done for a reason:
> neither in latex (printed box) nor in reportlab (mwlib.rl / downloadable
> pdf) is it possible for a single table cell to span multiple pages - the
> pdf can not be generated in that case. --> The table that might have
> been used solely to get a border around some text is removed and the
> border is not drawn. I can try to add some heuristic to the code which
> tries to guess if the single cell table fits on a single page. In that
> case the table (and the border) would be preserved. I have added a
> ticket for the above issue (http://code.pediapress.com/wiki/ticket/346)
>
> Do the templates you have in mind generate single-cell-tables? If that
> is not the case, could you provide links to the templates or tell me by
> which means you achieve the border in mediawiki markup (div with css
> style maybe?)

It actually is. Here's an example of one of the templates I've been
trying to use for this:

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Template:PrintTextBox

The background color does appear on it correctly now, I haven't tried
to use borders on it in a while. Would using a DIV tag instead of a
table be better to preserve formatting, or are the two treated the
same?

--Andrew Whitworth

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