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[docbook] Rendering Quality on Windows IE
- From: Ray Miller <ray dot miller at nist dot gov>
- To: docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 14:32:44 -0500
- Subject: [docbook] Rendering Quality on Windows IE
- Organization: National Institute of Standards and Technology
Current development environment:
docbook-dtd-4.4b2
docbook-xsl-1.67.2
xalan 2.5
jre-1.5
oXygen 5
The following table code fragment:
<informaltable width="1000" frame="none" cellpadding="0"
cellspacing="0" dir="ltr" lang="en-US">
<tgroup cols="2">
<colspec colwidth="650" align="left"/>
<colspec colwidth="350" align="right"/>
<tbody>
<row valign="top">
<entry>
<para>
<superscript>Superscript</superscript>
</para>
</entry>
<entry>
<para>
<superscript>Superscript</superscript>
</para>
</entry>
</row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
<tgroup cols="5">
<colspec colwidth="50"/>
<colspec colwidth="500"/>
<colspec colwidth="200"/>
<colspec colwidth="200"/>
<colspec colwidth="50"/>
<tbody>
<row valign="bottom">
<entry/>
<entry>
<simpara>Some</simpara>
</entry>
<entry>
<simpara>Text </simpara>
</entry>
<entry>
<simpara>Here</simpara>
</entry>
<entry/>
</row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
<tgroup cols="5">
<colspec colwidth="50"/>
<colspec colwidth="500"/>
<colspec colwidth="200"/>
<colspec colwidth="200"/>
<colspec colwidth="50"/>
<tbody>
<row valign="top">
<entry/>
<entry>
<simpara>
<superscript>More</superscript>
</simpara>
</entry>
<entry>
<simpara>
<superscript>Superscript</superscript>
</simpara>
</entry>
<entry>
<simpara>
<superscript>Text</superscript>
</simpara>
</entry>
<entry/>
</row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
</informaltable>
When transformed to html, renders beautifully on Firefox and Konqueror.
Superscript font is small and distinctive. However, when rendered on an
Win2K box with IE6, all the fonts are UGLY and the superscript fonts are full
size.
The web server is Apache on Linux.
Advice please.
Ray