[publican-list] tables

[Jeffrey Fearn]

mbutubuntu wrote:
> Jeffrey Fearn ha scritto:
>> Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
>>> On 08/30/2009 11:52 PM, Jeffrey Fearn wrote:
>>>> Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
>>>>> On 08/26/2009 12:14 AM, Jeffrey Fearn wrote:
>>>>>> mbutubuntu wrote:
>>>>>> > why this tags don't work ??
>>>>>> http://www.docbook.org/tdg/en/html/table.html
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > I need to insert a table inside a Doc... please help me
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi, tables work fine. There is an example in
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://svn.fedorahosted.org/svn/publican/trunk/publican/Users_Guide/en-US/Branding.xml 
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Have you tried generating a PDF from that?
>>>>>
>>>>> -- Jeroen
>>>>
>>>> Yeah, the column sizes are wrong when you build it with the old system,
>>>> but the beta sizes the columns correctly.
>>>>
> What do you mean with "beta"?? a beta version of publican??

Yeah, we are currently testing it.


<hint>Maybe Rudi will post an update about what is going on!</hint>

>>> Actually with what is in Fedora 11 right now the PDF ends at the 
>>> point where the table should have been and everything else is 
>>> generated with a Null ViewPort (?).
>>
>> Can you try editing /usr/share/publican/xsl/pdf.xsl and changing:
>>
>> <xsl:param name="tablecolumns.extensions" select="1"/>
>>
>> to
>>
>> <xsl:param name="tablecolumns.extensions" select="0"/>
>>
>> I'm assuming it's using xsltproc, which doesn't have an 
>> adjustColumnWidths function, this leads to it going BOOM when it hits 
>> a table and tries to use that function.
>>
> I tried but it doesn't work... :-(

Did it give any error messages?


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