Re: alignment in tables

[Jany Quintard <quintard.j@xxxxxx>]

On Tue, 18 May 1999, Pieter Rijken wrote:

> I cannot get the alignment of text in tables right.
> The table I want to format consists of 3 columns.
> Text in the first and third column is left aligned,
> while the contents of the second column should be
> right-aligned.
> 
> An example table in SGML looks like:
> 
> <table columns="3">
>   <row>
>     <cell>first column</cell>
>     <cell>second column</cell>
>     <cell>third column</cell>
>   </row>
> </table>
> 
> I'm trying to display this as:
> 
> first row         second row  third row
> \-------/  \---------------/  \-------/
> column 1       column 2        column 3
> 
> I try to achieve this with the following DSSSL script
> 
> (element table
>     (make table
> ;           display-alignment: 'start
>            (make table-column
>                  display-alignment: 'start)
>            (make table-column
>                  display-alignment: 'end)
>            (make table-column
>                  display-alignment: 'start)
>            (process-children)))
> 
> (element row
>     (process-children))
Well, I don't know the cell-alignment characteristic. I get the result I
want by using quadding: on a paragraph in the table-cell ; something like
the following 5~:


  (element tbody
    (make sequence label: 'tbody
                    quadding: 'start
      (process-children)))

  (element (tbody row)
    (make table-row
    (process-children)))

  (element tfoot 
    (make sequence label: 'tfoot
      (process-children)))

  (element (tfoot row)
    (make table-row font-posture: 'italic
                    quadding: 'end
      (process-children)))

  (element (entry)
    (make table-cell 
      (make paragraph
          (process-children-trim))))

I am not sure this is the "good" way, but it work with the RTF backend.
See if you can adapt it to your needs.

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