DOCBOOK-APPS: Table problems in FO

Title: Personal Stationery

I'm starting to work with throwing our 
documentation through XEP for PDF output, and I'm running into a few problems 
with tables.  

 

First, if I don't specifically specify a 
rowsep or colsep on the tgroup, the FO stylesheets are not drawing cell 
borders.  I've been poking around for a bit, and this line from the CALS 
specification seems to indicate that the default value for these should be 
1: "Default = IMPLIED, (means use value from tgroupstyle if any, else from 
<table> if any, else '1')." ). "  (http://www.oasis-open.org/specs/a502.htm).  
When I do specify a rowsep or colsep as 1, the cell borders appear correctly, so 
I'm assuming this is a stylesheet bug and not a XEP bug.

 

My other problem is a little stickier.  
It involves table widths.  We have been using absolute column widths on all 
of our tables (2,392 of them, to be exact.) and our current print engine (Epic 
3.0.1) determines the table width based on the sum of the column 
widths.  The XSL stylesheets don't do that.  Without turning on the 
tablecolumn.extensions, we get columns that extend past the edge of the table, 
or gaps between the edge of the rightmost column and the leftmost column.  
With the tablecolumn.extensions, we get a lot of tables that look either 
compressed or stretched.

 

I think I can fix the first problem by 
overriding the inherit.table.attribute template, I'm just wondering if I should 
file a bug.  I'm a little bit more lost on the second problem.  I'm 
pretty sure that all of our column widths are expressed in inches, so I can just 
add them up.  I'm wondering, though, if anybody has any better suggestions 
for this problem.

 

Thanks,

 

Jeff 
Beal

Tools Specialist

ANSYS, Inc.

(724) 514-3150