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newbie table colspec colwidth question
- From: Douglas du Boulay <ddb at R3401 dot rlem dot titech dot ac dot jp>
- To: docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 14:41:07 +0900 (JST)
- Subject: DOCBOOK: newbie table colspec colwidth question
I have a docbook sgml document containing many informaltables.
I am using the linux documentation project ldp.dsl customization
of the modular docbook.dsl dsssl stylsheets for rendering to HTML.
Using all default sgml attributes, all the resultant HTML tables have
explicitly equal width columns. In an earlier version of my document
using sgmltools and the linuxdoc.dtd the column widths were unspecified
but the default behaviour of most browsers was to adjust the columnwidths to
fit the contents. While the latter is clearly primitive and
implementation specific, it was certainly a damn sight cleaner and
easier to read than the equi-width columns I am now obtaining.
Probably it is most desirable to specify the colwith explicitly with
the <colspec> tag but I wonder what is the recomended way to set those
widths for both html and print output. Also, since I have very many of these
tables, is there a simple dsssl customization switch to disable the
current equiwidth settings in the meantime?
Thanks in advance
Doug