Hi,
A CALS table can be formatted the way you
want. Your CALS example included a rules="rows" attribute, but there is no
such attribute on table or informaltable. I think you wanted rowsep="1",
and you only wanted it on the header row. The outside borders on a CALS
table is handled using the frame attribute.
Also, any time you include a proportional column
specfication that has "*" means the table will take up the full-width of the
available space. If you leave out column width specifications, then the
stylesheet will use table-layout="auto" (with XEP and Antenna House which
support it) and the table width will try to fit the data.
Try this:
<informaltable
frame="topbot">
<tgroup cols='2'
colsep="0"
rowsep="0">
<colspec colnum='1' colname='col1'
align='right'/>
<colspec colnum='2' colname='col2'
align='left'/>
<thead
rowsep='1'>
<row>
<entry
align='left'>type</entry>
<entry>comments</entry>
</row>
</thead>
<tbody>
<row>
<entry
align='right'>0</entry>
<entry>small group of binning
settings</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>1</entry>
<entry>range of binning settings starting from
1</entry>
</row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
</informaltable>
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
----- Original Message -----
From:
Lillian
Sullam
To:
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 1:49
PM
Subject: [docbook-apps] Help!
Tables
Hello,
I'm trying to format my tables (mainly for PDF
output appearance, but a general look nonetheless).
Here is what I
would like:
______________________
Column1 Column
2_____
1 Some
text here
2 Some text
here
...
...
______________________
The basic idea is that numbers would
be right aligned and text would be left. The size of the table is determined
by the longest row.
I've tried making the tables with HTML and CALS,
but my results are not satisfactory. With HTML tables I get the size
right, but no text alignment. With CALS tables I can control the border
appearance, but not the row separation, and the text does not align
correctly.
Here is my code:
WITH CALS
<informaltable
rules="rows">
<tgroup
cols='2'>
<colspec colnum='1' colname='col1' colwidth='1*'
align='right'/>
<colspec colnum='2' colname='col2'
colwidth='4*'/>
<thead
rowsep='1'>
<row>
<entry
align='left'>type</entry>
<entry>comments</entry>
</row>
</thead>
<tbody>
<row>
<entry
align='right'>0</entry>
<entry>small group of binning
settings</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>1</entry>
<entry>range of binning settings starting from
1</entry>
</row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
</informaltable>
WITH
HTML
<informaltable>
<colgroup>
<col
align="right"/>
<col/>
</colgroup>
<thead>
<tr>
<th
align="left">type</th>
<th>comments</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>0</td>
<td>small group of binning settings</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>1</td>
<td>range of binning settings starting from
1</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</informaltable>
I use
docbook-xsl-1.74.0, SAXON, XEP. I've tried to do some tweeking with
customizations, but I can't seem to get anything to work. Thanks for any
help!
Lillian Sullam
