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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: howto make nicer tables?
On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 11:03:18AM +0900, Doug du Boulay wrote: > if you are only transforming to print maybe a specific dimension > like colwidth="30mm" might be fine. Well, that is, if you're transforming to only one paper size. Absolute dimensions will break the layout on at least one known paper size :) > You should be able to redefine those in your customization layer. > > > I do specify the align="justify" label in the tgroup tag, but it makes no > > difference. > > How can I improve the appearence on these two points? > > Thanx, > > What suprises me is that there is no docbook attribute for > explicitly setting the desired width of the table. There is > only the pgwide attribute. I would have liked to be able to say > tablewidth="50%" of the page, just like in html. > pgwide basically switches from 100% to an invariably bad > automatic calculation. You may want to submit a RFE for this. > I get the feeling that the dsssl route is a technological > dead end I can't tell the future, but I'm not so certain about that :) Regards, -- Yann Dirson <Yann.Dirson@fr.alcove.com> http://www.alcove.com/ Technical support manager Responsable de l'assistance technique Senior Free-Software Consultant Consultant senior en Logiciels Libres Debian developer (dirson@debian.org) Développeur Debian
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