DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: DocBook tables and FOP

[Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>]

/ Jeff Iezzi <jeff.iezzi@semanticedge.com> was heard to say:
| While trying to solve this problem myself, I learned that FOP will 
| not handle proportional measures (1*) correctly. Norm's FOP style 
| sheets convert this information, but FOP does not yet support 
| proportional widths. (Norm's HTML style sheets, however, handle 
| proportional measures quite well).

If you turn on the extensions I mentioned in my previous message and
set default.table.width to some real measure (like '6in'), the proportional
values should be converted correctly for you.

You can override the stylesheet default width with a PI:

...
<tgroup>
  <?dbfo table-width="3in"?>
  ...

(Dave/Bob, I'll try to write up an FAQ entry on this today.)

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>      | To create a little flower is the
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