Re: [docbook] Width attribute on table element

[Bob Stayton <bobs@sagehill.net>]

Hi Frank,
For HTML table markup in DocBook, the DocBook Technical Committee tried 
to maintain compatibility with the HTML standard, the W3C spec for HTML 
tables, which allows percent and pixels (an integer interpreted as 
pixels). To extend this, the stylesheets support a processing 
instruction to specify table width. The stylesheet will copy that value 
to the width attribute using whatever units you supply.  See this reference:

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

If you use Cals tables, you can use a processing instruction for the 
table width and also use typographical units in column specs.

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net

On 9/4/2015 3:39 AM, Frank Arensmeier wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I’d like to make a request regarding the width tribute on the table
> element. It kind of surprises me that only percent values are allowed
> according to e.g. http://www.docbook.org/tdg5/en/html/html.table.html
>
> I’d like to suggest that other units should be allowed too, namely em,
> px and pt. Is there any particular reason to only allow percent values?
>
> Thank you!
> /frank