Re: [docbook] Rendering Quality on Windows IE

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

This sounds like a font issue with the browser.  DocBook's HTML is pretty
vanilla, and specifies no fonts.  When I view DocBook output in IE6, it
looks fine, with superscript in  a smaller font.  Is a CSS stylesheet being
used?  Is the IE browser configured for different fonts?  Do you get the
same results when viewing the HTML locally instead of from the Apache
server?

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
DocBook Consulting
bobs@sagehill.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ray Miller" <ray.miller@nist.gov>
To: <docbook@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 11:32 AM
Subject: [docbook] Rendering Quality on Windows IE


> Current development environment:
>   docbook-dtd-4.4b2
>   docbook-xsl-1.67.2
>   xalan 2.5
>   jre-1.5
>   oXygen 5
>
> The following table code fragment:
>
>         <informaltable width="1000" frame="none" cellpadding="0"
> cellspacing="0" dir="ltr" lang="en-US">
>              <tgroup cols="2">
>                <colspec colwidth="650" align="left"/>
>                <colspec colwidth="350" align="right"/>
>                <tbody>
>                   <row valign="top">
>                      <entry>
>                         <para>
>                            <superscript>Superscript</superscript>
>                         </para>
>                      </entry>
>                      <entry>
>                         <para>
>                            <superscript>Superscript</superscript>
>                         </para>
>                      </entry>
>                   </row>
>                </tbody>
>             </tgroup>
>             <tgroup cols="5">
>                <colspec colwidth="50"/>
>                <colspec colwidth="500"/>
>                <colspec colwidth="200"/>
>                <colspec colwidth="200"/>
>                <colspec colwidth="50"/>
>                <tbody>
>                   <row valign="bottom">
>                      <entry/>
>                      <entry>
>                         <simpara>Some</simpara>
>                      </entry>
>                      <entry>
>                         <simpara>Text </simpara>
>                      </entry>
>                      <entry>
>                         <simpara>Here</simpara>
>                      </entry>
>                      <entry/>
>                   </row>
>                </tbody>
>             </tgroup>
>             <tgroup cols="5">
>                <colspec colwidth="50"/>
>                <colspec colwidth="500"/>
>                <colspec colwidth="200"/>
>                <colspec colwidth="200"/>
>                <colspec colwidth="50"/>
>                <tbody>
>                   <row valign="top">
>                      <entry/>
>                      <entry>
>                         <simpara>
>                            <superscript>More</superscript>
>                         </simpara>
>                      </entry>
>                      <entry>
>                         <simpara>
>                            <superscript>Superscript</superscript>
>                         </simpara>
>                      </entry>
>                      <entry>
>                         <simpara>
>                            <superscript>Text</superscript>
>                         </simpara>
>                      </entry>
>                      <entry/>
>                   </row>
>                </tbody>
>             </tgroup>
>          </informaltable>
>
> When transformed to html, renders beautifully on Firefox and Konqueror.
> Superscript font is small and distinctive. However,  when rendered on an
> Win2K box with IE6, all the fonts are UGLY and the superscript fonts are
full
> size.
>
> The web server is Apache on Linux.
>
> Advice please.
>
> Ray
>
>