Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: need help with Passivetex errors

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Giuseppe Greco <>
Date
2002-09-13T12:33:55+00:00
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Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: need help with Passivetex errors
Alex,

Yes, I'm using relative column widths.
I think I will proceed as you suggest:
I will replace relative column widths
whit absolute ones.

Thanks,

Giuseppe

On Fri, 2002-09-13 at 10:48, Alex Lancaster wrote:
> >>>>> "GG" == Giuseppe Greco <> writes:
> 
> GG> Alex, Thanks for your suggestion.
> 
> GG> I've installed PassiveTex 1.18, and I'm now able to generate PDF
> GG> files, but... the generated PDF files have problems with
> GG> tables. That is, table are redered as following:
> 
> GG> |text 
> GG> |text 
> GG> |text
> GG> |text
> 
> GG> ...instead of
> 
> +------+------+
> | text | text |
> +------+------+
> | text | text |
> +------+------+
> 
> GG> Note that I have also downloaded the latest version of Bob's
> GG> fotex.sty and fotex.xmt.
> 
> This may not be the problem, but PassiveTeX doesn't yet understand
> relative column widths, so you will probably need to specify
> absolution column widths (e.g. <colspec colwidth="2cm"/>) <tgroup> in
> either <informaltable> or <table>.  
> 
> You might want to post a short test DocBook XML document (just an
> article containing a table) that reproduces the problem.
> 
> GG> I'm using xsl-stylesheets 1.54.1.
> 
> A.
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