RE: [docbook-apps] Positioning Tables in printed Output

["Mauritz Jeanson" <mj@johanneberg.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Russell Seymour 
> 
> I have a document that has an informaltable of 60mm in width. 
>  I would like to position this table to the right hand side 
> of the page and i can't do it.  I tried to add align to the 
> various sections in the markup but all I succeed in doing is 
> align the text and not the table.
> I guess I must have missed something in the documents, sorry 
> if I have.


One method of doing it is described here:
http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/fo.html#fo-right-align-table-horizon

In a customization layer, you can use the "table.layout" placeholder
template to achieve this (see table.xsl). Here is a suggestion:

<!-- Align a table based on the value of the table's tabstyle attribute -->
<xsl:template name="table.layout">
  <xsl:param name="table.content" select="NOTANODE"/>

  <xsl:choose>
    <xsl:when test="@tabstyle='right-align'">
      <fo:table table-layout="fixed" width="100%"> 
	<fo:table-column column-width="proportional-column-width(1)"/>
	<fo:table-column column-width="60mm"/>
	<fo:table-body> 
	  <fo:table-row> 
	    <fo:table-cell column-number="2">
	      <fo:block>
		<xsl:copy-of select="$table.content"/>
	      </fo:block>
	    </fo:table-cell>
	  </fo:table-row> 
	</fo:table-body> 
      </fo:table> 
    </xsl:when>

    <xsl:otherwise>
     <xsl:copy-of select="$table.content"/>
    </xsl:otherwise>
  </xsl:choose>
  
</xsl:template>


Mauritz