Hi Daniel,
I think most of your questions are answered
here:
In particular the sections titled Cell spanning,
Cell rotation, and Background color.
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Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2012 6:29
AM
Subject: [docbook-apps] XML Table
Structure, color and text direction with DocBook and Oxygen
Hello,, we recently started transferring our user manuals from Word do
DocBook. We realized on our first
pages that we had problems structuring our tables in the same manner as we did
with word.
As an
example:
Purpose|Document
Purpose|Application Purpose|Application
Purpose|App1|
App2 |Content|
Content Purpose|App1|
App2 |Content|
Content
The purposes on the left side occupy the entire left side of
the table without any disruptions, whereas the documents on the right side
have a subdivision into additional purposes or application. As an e.g., one
application is used for testing, the other one is used for reporting. But both
are used for automatization. As a consequence
"Purpose|Application" turns into
"Purpose|App1|
App2"
|Content|
Content
Since most
"purposes" consist of at least two cells that have been merged, we cannot
simply leave cells empty. Additionally, there is not only one, but usually two
ore more application fulfilling a certain purpose. Also, and this it what
makes it pretty hard for us, "Purpose", "App", and Document have a grey
background and are written bold.
As you can see there is pretty much to take care of:
- How can you structure a table similar as in
word, e.g. by merging and subdividing/ splitting cells? - How can you define a cells background color? Purpose
and Document (at the top of the table) are the table headings and thus have a
different format than the rest of the table. - Is it possible to change a cells/ tables text direction, so
that a table? In some cases, the text direction of a text within a tables has
to be changed ( e.g. 90°)
Thanks for the help!
Yours sincerely, Daniel Keyes
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