Re: [docbook-apps] Rotating table headers with XEP

Regarding the vertically centered rotated 
headers, I don't get that with XEP 3.78 or 4.0.  My rotated headers are 
aligned to the bottom. Are you sure you don't have align="center" on the column 
spec in the Docbook table?

 

Regarding the column widths, if you don't 
set column widths, then the table will format to the full width of the page with 
equal width columns.  Try setting column widths in your DocBook 
table.  There is also a dbfo table-width processing instruction. 

 

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
DocBook Consulting


 

 

  
----- Original Message ----- 

  
From: 
  William 
  Sporrong 

  
To: docbook-apps 

  
Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 2:55 
AM

  
Subject: [docbook-apps] Rotating table 
  headers with XEP

  

  
Hello,

  
I'm trying to rotate table headers in docbook 
  using xep. After reading an other post on the net i finally managed to get 
  them to rotate by using <?dbfo orientation="90"?><?dbfo 
  rotated-width="2.5in"?> inside every header entry. The height of the 
  resulting table headers is fine but there are other 
problems:

  
 

  
1) The texts in the headers is vertically 
  centered.

  
2) The columns are way to wide. Inside the 
  table only the first column contains text the rest of them 
  contains one or two characters (++, + or -) but all of the columns have the 
  width of the first.

  
 

  
So my questions are: Is there a smarter way to 
  rotate table headers? How can I align the header texts? How do i control the 
  width of the columns?

  
 

  
Thanks

  
William