Re: [docbook-apps] XML Table Structure, color and text direction with DocBook and Oxygen

2012-04-04 Thread Bob Stayton 
Hi Daniel,
I think most of your questions are answered here:

http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/Tables.html

In particular the sections titled Cell spanning, Cell rotation, and Background 
color.

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
b...@sagehill.net


  - Original Message - 
  From: daniel.ke...@finaris.de 
  To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org 
  Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2012 6:29 AM
  Subject: [docbook-apps] XML Table Structure, color and text direction with 
DocBook and Oxygen


  Hello,, 
  we recently started transferring our user manuals from Word do DocBook. 
  We realized on our first pages that we had problems structuring our tables in 
the same manner as we did with word. 



  As an example: 

  Purpose|Document   
  Purpose|Application 
  Purpose|Application 
  Purpose|App1|  App2 
  |Content|Content 
  Purpose|App1|  App2 
  |Content|   Content 

  The purposes on the left side occupy the entire left side of the table 
without any disruptions, whereas the documents on the right side have a 
subdivision into additional purposes or application. As an e.g., one 
application is used for testing, the other one is used for reporting. But both 
are used for automatization. As a consequence 

  Purpose|Application turns into Purpose|App1|   
   App2 
  |Content|   
Content 
  
  Since most purposes consist of at least two cells that have been merged, we 
cannot simply leave cells empty. Additionally, there is not only one, but 
usually two ore more application fulfilling a certain purpose. Also, and this 
it what makes it pretty hard for us, Purpose, App, and Document have a grey 
background and are written bold. 

  As you can see there is pretty much to take care of: 
  - How can you structure a table similar as in word, e.g. by merging and 
subdividing/ splitting cells? 
  - How can you define a cells background color? Purpose and Document (at the 
top of the table) are the table headings and thus have a different format than 
the rest of the table. 
  - Is it possible to change a cells/ tables text direction, so that a table? 
In some cases, the text direction of a text within a tables has to be changed ( 
e.g. 90°) 


  Thanks for the help! 





  Yours sincerely, 
  Daniel Keyes 


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[docbook-apps] XML Table Structure, color and text direction with DocBook and Oxygen

2012-04-03 Thread daniel . keyes 
Hello,,
we recently started transferring our user manuals from Word do DocBook.
We realized on our first pages that we had problems structuring our tables 
in the same manner as we did with word.



As an example:

Purpose|Document 
Purpose|Application
Purpose|Application 
Purpose|App1|  App2
|Content|Content
Purpose|App1|  App2
|Content|   Content

The purposes on the left side occupy the entire left side of the table 
without any disruptions, whereas the documents on the right side have a 
subdivision into additional purposes or application. As an e.g., one 
application is used for testing, the other one is used for reporting. But 
both are used for automatization. As a consequence

Purpose|Application turns intoPurpose|App1|  App2
|Content| Content
 
Since most purposes consist of at least two cells that have been merged, 
we cannot simply leave cells empty. Additionally, there is not only one, 
but usually two ore more application fulfilling a certain purpose. Also, 
and this it what makes it pretty hard for us, Purpose, App, and 
Document have a grey background and are written bold.

As you can see there is pretty much to take care of:
- How can you structure a table similar as in word, e.g. by merging and 
subdividing/ splitting cells?
- How can you define a cells background color? Purpose and Document (at 
the top of the table) are the table headings and thus have a different 
format than the rest of the table.
- Is it possible to change a cells/ tables text direction, so that a table
? In some cases, the text direction of a text within a tables has to be 
changed ( e.g. 90°) 


Thanks for the help!





Yours sincerely,
Daniel Keyes


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