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Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Table Line Thickness


Hi Dean,
You said "wouldn't it make sense to allow a "rowsep" on a cell when the table has a frame="none" ?"
 
It does make sense, but DocBook tries to adhere as closely as possible to the CALS table standard, and that would require a change to the standard, which explicitly says the rowsep on the last row is to be ignored.
 
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net
 
 
----- Original Message -----
From: DeanNelson
Sent: Monday, September 07, 2009 7:52 PM
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Table Line Thickness

Great - Thanks Bob.
 
This all came about when I needed to render a table in PDF that had no borders, but had one cell on the bottom of the table that needed a bottom line, but I could not render it because the "rowsep" does not work on the bottom cell because the outer table line would overwrite it.
 
Sooo... I decided to try to render that particular table a bit different, hence the question. But since I got you on the line, wouldn't it make sense to allow a "rowsep" on a cell when the table has a frame="none" ?
 
Thanks,
Dean Nelson
 
 
 
In a message dated 09/05/09 16:26:20 Pacific Daylight Time, bobs@sagehill.net writes:
Hi Dean,
You could do it with a processing instruction, a tabstyle attribute is more appropriate. A tabstyle can be put on a table or informaltable element to indicate to the stylesheet that different styling is required. 
 
If you go with tabstyle, you can call a utility template named 'tabstyle' that  returns the value of the attribute for the current table.  The tabstyle template is described here:
 
To customize the frame borders, you would copy and edit the template named table.frame in fo/table.xsl to use an xsl:choose statement to select the frame thickness.  An example of using xsl:choose with tabstyle for table cell properties is shown here:
 
 
In the table.frame template, you could do that once at the top of the template to fill a variable, and then use that variable in place of $table.frame.border.thickness in the long set of frame choices that follow:
 
  <xsl:variable name="tabstyle">
    <xsl:call-template name="tabstyle"/>
  </xsl:variable>
 
  <xsl:variable name="frame.thickness">
    <xsl:choose>
      <xsl:when test="$tabstyle='thickborder'">2pt</xsl:when>
      <xsl:when test="$tabstyle='verythickborder'">4pt</xsl:when>
      <xsl:otherwise>
        <xsl:value-of select="$table.frame.border.thickness"/>
      </xsl:otherwise>
    </xsl:choose>
  </xsl:variable>
 
And then replace all other instances in the template of $table.frame.border.thickness with $frame.thickness.
 
If you need to also change the rowsep and colsep (cell borders), then customize the template named 'border' in fo/table.xsl with the same technique.
 
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net
 
 
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 5:34 PM
Subject: [docbook-apps] Table Line Thickness

Hello everyone,
 
Is there a way to control the thickness of the border of each table separately? The common parameter only applies to ALL tables.
 
Maybe an additional PI?
 
Thanks
Dean Nelson
 


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