Re: [docbook-apps] Help! Tables

["Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net>]

Hi,

A CALS table can be formatted the way you want.  Your CALS example included a rules="rows" attribute, but there is no such attribute on table or informaltable.  I think you wanted rowsep="1", and you only wanted it on the header row.  The outside borders on a CALS table is handled using the frame attribute.

 

Also, any time you include a proportional column specfication that has "*" means the table will take up the full-width of the available space.  If you leave out column width specifications, then the stylesheet will use table-layout="auto" (with XEP and Antenna House which support it) and the table width will try to fit the data.

 

Try this:

 

<informaltable frame="topbot">
       <tgroup cols='2' colsep="0" rowsep="0">
            <colspec colnum='1' colname='col1' align='right'/>
            <colspec colnum='2' colname='col2' align='left'/>
        <thead rowsep='1'>
          <row>
            <entry align='left'>type</entry>
            <entry>comments</entry>
          </row>
          </thead>
          <tbody>
          <row>
            <entry align='right'>0</entry>
            <entry>small group of binning settings</entry>
          </row>
          <row>
            <entry>1</entry>
            <entry>range of binning settings starting from 1</entry>
          </row>
        </tbody>
        </tgroup>
</informaltable>

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net

 

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Lillian Sullam

To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org

Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 1:49 PM

Subject: [docbook-apps] Help! Tables

Hello,

I'm trying to format my tables (mainly for PDF output appearance, but a general look nonetheless).

Here is what I would like:

______________________
Column1   Column 2_____

           1   Some text here
           2   Some text here
         ...    ...
______________________


The basic idea is that numbers would be right aligned and text would be left. The size of the table is determined by the longest row.

I've tried making the tables with HTML and CALS, but my results are not satisfactory.  With HTML tables I get the size right, but no text alignment.  With CALS tables I can control the border appearance, but not the row separation, and the text does not align correctly.

Here is my code:

WITH CALS
<informaltable rules="rows">
       <tgroup cols='2'>
            <colspec colnum='1' colname='col1' colwidth='1*' align='right'/>
            <colspec colnum='2' colname='col2' colwidth='4*'/>
        <thead rowsep='1'>
          <row>
            <entry align='left'>type</entry>
            <entry>comments</entry>
          </row>
          </thead>
          <tbody>
          <row>
            <entry align='right'>0</entry>
            <entry>small group of binning settings</entry>
          </row>
          <row>
            <entry>1</entry>
            <entry>range of binning settings starting from 1</entry>
          </row>
        </tbody>
        </tgroup>
</informaltable>

WITH HTML
<informaltable>
    <colgroup>
        <col align="right"/>
        <col/>
    </colgroup>
    <thead>
          <tr>
            <th align="left">type</th>
            <th>comments</th>        
          </tr>
     </thead>
      <tbody>
          <tr>
            <td>0</td>
            <td>small group of binning settings</td>         
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td>1</td>
            <td>range of binning settings starting from 1</td>           
          </tr>
      </tbody>
 </informaltable>

I use docbook-xsl-1.74.0, SAXON, XEP.  I've tried to do some tweeking with customizations, but I can't seem to get anything to work.  Thanks for any help!

Lillian Sullam