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DAVENPORT: Tables with DVI backend
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- Subject: DAVENPORT: Tables with DVI backend
- From: "Jens M. Felderhoff" <j.m.f@netcologne.de>
- Date: 06 Jun 1999 15:19:21 +0200
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I have defined a table with a row-spanning entry:
<informaltable frame="all" rowsep="1">
<tgroup cols="5" colsep="1" rowsep="1">
<colspec colnum="1" colname="col1" colwidth="2*" align="center">
<colspec colnum="2" colname="col2" colwidth="*" align="center">
<colspec colnum="3" colname="col3" colwidth="*" align="center">
<colspec colnum="4" colname="col4" colwidth="*" align="center">
<colspec colnum="5" colname="col5" colwidth="*" align="center">
<spanspec namest="col2" nameend="col5" spanname="2to5">
<thead>
<row>
<entry morerows="1" valign="middle">feature</entry>
<entry spanname="2to5">shell</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry colname="col2"><command>sh</command> (Bourne)</entry>
<entry><command>sh</command> (<acronym>POSIX</acronym>)</entry>
<entry><command>ksh</command></entry>
<entry><command>zsh</command></entry>
</row>
</thead>
<tbody>
[...]
This looks perfecly OK when using the HTML backend. However, the DVI
backend produces output that roughly looks like:
+-----------+----------------------------------+
| feature | shell |
| +----------+-------+-------+-------+
|sh (Bourne)|sh (POSIX)| ksh | zsh |
+-----------+----------+-------+-------+-------+
| | | | | |
So, instead of starting at the second column, the second row is
shifted to the left, leaving a gap at the end.
In HTML ``feature'' is correctly lined up with the row separator
between row 1 and row 2 occupying column 1 row 1 and 2.
Neither are the example tables from the DocBook reference rendered
correctly with the DVI backend. The HTML backend works OK again.
My configuration:
DocBook DTD: 3.0, Rel. 2
DocBook stylesheets: 1.24, Rel. 2
James Clark's DSSSL engine: 1.2.1, Rel. 1
jadetex: 2.3, rel. 1
SGMLtools core package: 2.0, Rel. 2
Tschüss
Jens
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