Re: [docbook-apps] Table Line Thickness

Hi Dean,

You said "wouldn't it make sense to allow a 
"rowsep" on a cell when the table has a frame="none" ?"

 

It does make sense, but DocBook tries to adhere as 
closely as possible to the CALS table standard, and that would require a change 
to the standard, which explicitly says the rowsep on the last row is to be 
ignored.

 

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises


 

 

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

  
From: 
  DeanNelson 
  

  
To: Bob Stayton ;  
  

  
Sent: Monday, September 07, 2009 7:52 
  PM

  
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Table Line 
  Thickness

  

  
Great - Thanks Bob.

  
 

  
This all came about when I needed to render a 
  table in PDF that had no borders, but had one cell on the bottom of 
  the table that needed a bottom line, but I could not render it because the 
  "rowsep" does not work on the bottom cell because the outer table line would 
  overwrite it.

  
 

  
Sooo... I decided to try to render that 
  particular table a bit different, hence the question. But since I got you on 
  the line, wouldn't it make sense to allow a "rowsep" on a cell when the table 
  has a frame="none" ?

  
 

  
Thanks,

  
Dean Nelson

  
 

  
 

  
 

  
In a message dated 09/05/09 16:26:20 Pacific Daylight Time, 
   writes:

  
    

    

    
    

    
Hi Dean,

    
You could do it with a processing instruction, a tabstyle attribute is 
    more appropriate. A tabstyle can be put on a table or 
    informaltable element to indicate to the stylesheet that different 
    styling is required.  

    
 

    
If you go with tabstyle, you can call a utility template named 
    'tabstyle' that  returns the value of the attribute for the current 
    table.  The tabstyle template is described here:

    
 

    

    
http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/PrintTableStyles.html#TabstyleTemplate

    
 

    
To customize the frame borders, you would copy and edit the template 
    named table.frame in fo/table.xsl to use an xsl:choose statement to select 
    the frame thickness.  An example of using xsl:choose with 
    tabstyle for table cell properties is shown here:

    
 

    
http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/PrintTableStyles.html#CustomCellProperties

    
 

    
In the table.frame template, you could do that once at the top of the 
    template to fill a variable, and then use that variable in place of 
    $table.frame.border.thickness in the long set of frame choices that 
    follow:

    
 

    
  <xsl:variable name="tabstyle">
    
    <xsl:call-template name="tabstyle"/>
  
    </xsl:variable>

    
 

    
  <xsl:variable 
    name="frame.thickness">
    
    <xsl:choose>
      <xsl:when 
    test="$tabstyle='thickborder'">2pt</xsl:when>
      
    <xsl:when 
    test="$tabstyle='verythickborder'">4pt</xsl:when>
      
    <xsl:otherwise>
        
    <xsl:value-of 
    select="$table.frame.border.thickness"/>
      
    </xsl:otherwise>
    </xsl:choose>
  
    </xsl:variable>

    
 

    
And then replace all other instances in the template of 
    $table.frame.border.thickness with $frame.thickness.

    
 

    
If you need to also change the rowsep and colsep (cell borders), then 
    customize the template named 'border' in fo/table.xsl with the same 
    technique.

    
 

    
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises


    
 

    
 

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

      
From: 
       

      
To:  
      

      
Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 
      5:34 PM

      
Subject: [docbook-apps] Table Line 
      Thickness

      

      
Hello everyone,

      
 

      
Is there a way to control the thickness of the border of each table 
      separately? The common parameter only applies to ALL tables.

      
 

      
Maybe an additional PI?

      
 

      
Thanks

      
Dean Nelson