Re: [docbook-apps] db 4.5, table cell widths.

[Dave Pawson <davep@dpawson.co.uk>]

Bob Stayton wrote:
> Hi Dave,
> I'm not sure that special feature of colgroup is supported in the 
> stylesheets.  I had not heard of it.
> 
> Can you clarify what your intentions are for minimizing column widths? 
> Does minimum mean the width of the cell's content without line breaks, 
> or do you want to force line breaks for longer entries to reduce the 
> column width?  When it says ...
> 
> "this attribute allows the special form "0*" (zero asterisk) which means 
> that the width of the each column in the group should be the minimum 
> width necessary to hold the column's contents."
> 
> ... I interpret this to mean the text width without forced line breaks.


No line breaks. Balanced columns means I have wasted space and I want to
float the table left to fit an image into the space on the right?
Minimised to 'just' fit the text does that.

regards




> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Pawson" <davep@dpawson.co.uk>
> To: "Docbook-Apps" <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
> Sent: Monday, September 03, 2007 6:09 AM
> Subject: [docbook-apps] db 4.5, table cell widths.
> 
> 
>> Using db 4.5 I'm trying to generate smaller widths in the columns
>>
>> db5 says colgroup width="0*" will minimise columns.
>> colgroup isn't getting me far with 4.5
>>
>> Using $Revision: 7119 $ $Date: 2007-07-23 02:07:18 +0900 (Mon, 23 Jul 
>> 2007)
>>
>> How can I specify the column widths, for html output, using the html 
>> table model please.
>>
>>
>>
>> regards
>>
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