Re: Missing 'width' attribute, CALS limitation?

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Subject: Re: Missing 'width' attribute, CALS limitation?
From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 13:00:46 -0500

At 2002-11-12 03:52 +0100, Gustaf Liljegren wrote:

Am I right in my assumption that to calculate mixed column widths
(proportional and absolute), you need the total width of a table?

This is not right.

You can mix absolute widths (i.e. column-width="5cm") with proportional widths (i.e. column-width="proportional-column-width( number-of-units )") and the formatter will prorate the remaining width of the table for proportional specifications after removing any absolute values.

CALS doesn't have such an attribute.

Now I question if I understood your original question.

It has something called "pgwide",
which I think can be useful, but I don't understand it fully. The DocBook
book says:

"If pgwide has the value 0, then the table is rendered in the current text
flow (with flow column width). A value of 1 specifies that the table should
be rendered across the full text page."

My interpretation is that 0 might be useful for tables as wide as
fo:region-body. Does 1 really mean a page without margins? What about
tables just half the width of fo:region-body? Why not have a width
attribute? Isn't this a major shortcoming in CALS?

The semantics represented by the elements and attributes of CALS tables have been discussed, reviewed and standardized by OASIS. The page http://oasis-open.org/specs/tablemodels.shtml has pointers to a number of documents.

Looking at 3.1.5 of http://oasis-open.org/specs/tr9501.html shows that pgwide has to do with spanning columns of the page, not with anything to do with the margins.

So, from an XSL-FO point of view, I think pgwide="1" would have to translate to span="all".

I hope this helps.

...................... Ken


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Missing 'width' attribute, CALS limitation? Gustaf Liljegren - Mon, 11 Nov 2002 21:48:10 -0500 (EST) G. Ken Holman - Tue, 12 Nov 2002 12:57:04 -0500 (EST) <= W. Eliot Kimber - Tue, 12 Nov 2002 13:10:56 -0500 (EST) Gustaf Liljegren - Tue, 12 Nov 2002 16:06:37 -0500 (EST) G. Ken Holman - Tue, 12 Nov 2002 16:38:01 -0500 (EST)

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