Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Getting started on Linux?

[Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian.rahtz@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk>]

Holger Rauch writes:
 > Ok, the bad thing about all this is that formatting tables with XSL (and
 > XSL-FO) processors leads to results that are a lot worse. Or am I wrong on
 > this issue? 

yes, you are. the formatting of tables in the main XSL FO
implementations (don't forget that there are at least 6!) is already
pretty good, and gets better rapidly. Tables in PassiveTeX have a more
stable basis than JadeTeX, imho (though they need some more work)

 > With JadeTeX, at least the frame of the table, and separator lines between
 > table cells are shown (provided that one specified the "rowsep", or
 > "colsep" attribute, respectively).

no problem in XSL FO

sebastian