Re: tables html dsssl HELP!

[Daniel Pitti <dvp4c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ken,

It works perfectly. Thanks.

Daniel

At 08:57 PM 10/13/1997 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi Daniel,
>
>At 14:49 97/10/13 -0400, Daniel Pitti wrote:
>>I would like to add spacing
>>between each row -- there are no borders. How would I do this using your
>>example below?
>
>First, to turn off the border there is no need to have the
>cell-before-????-border characteristics, so in this example I left out the
>row border and left in the column border.
>
>Next, I added spacing by flowing a paragraph flow object into the cell,
>rather than just text of the child of the element.  This allows me to use
>the space-before characteristic to adjust vertical spacing.
>
>If I understand your requirement correctly, the following "samp3.dsl"
>should do the trick.
>
>Good luck ............. Ken
>
>p.s. In the event you wanted just spacing between cell contents and not
>before the first row's cell contents, I created "samp3b.dsl" which doesn't
>space before the first row.
>
>F:\FTEMP>type samp3.sgm
><!DOCTYPE t [
><!ELEMENT t - O ( r+ )      -- table  -->
><!ELEMENT r - O ( c+ )      -- row    -->
><!ELEMENT c - O ( #PCDATA ) -- column -->
>]><t>
><r><c>r1c1<c>r1c2
><r><c>r2c1<c>r2c2
>
>F:\FTEMP>type samp3.dsl
><!DOCTYPE style-sheet PUBLIC "-//James Clark//DTD DSSSL Style Sheet//EN">
>
>(element t                      ;the processing of the table element
>    (make table
>        table-border:  (make table-border line-thickness: 3pt)
>        (make table-column width: 1in)  ;all columns before any rows
>        (make table-column width: 2in)
>        (process-children)))            ;child elements make row flow objs
>
>(element r                      ;a row in the table
>    (make table-row
>        (process-children)))    ;child elements make cell flow objects
>
>(element c                      ;a column in the row
>    (make table-cell
>        cell-before-column-border: #t
>        (make paragraph
>            space-before: 2cm
>            (process-children))))   ;content of the table cell
>
>; end of file
>
>
>F:\FTEMP>jade -c %jadedir%catalog -t rtf -d samp3.dsl samp3.sgm
>
>F:\FTEMP>type samp3b.dsl
><!DOCTYPE style-sheet PUBLIC "-//James Clark//DTD DSSSL Style Sheet//EN">
>
>(element t                      ;the processing of the table element
>    (make table
>        table-border:  (make table-border line-thickness: 3pt)
>        (make table-column width: 1in)  ;all columns before any rows
>        (make table-column width: 2in)
>        (process-children)))            ;child elements make row flow objs
>
>(element r                      ;a row in the table
>    (make table-row
>        (process-children)))    ;child elements make cell flow objects
>
>(element c                      ;a column in the row
>    (make table-cell            ;content of the table cell
>        cell-before-column-border: #t
>        (make paragraph     ;with extra room
>            space-before:   (if (equal? (child-number
>                                            (parent (current-node)))
>                                        1)
>                                0cm
>                                2cm)
>            (process-children))))
>
>; end of file
>
>
>F:\FTEMP>jade -c %jadedir%catalog -t rtf -d samp3b.dsl samp3.sgm
>
>F:\FTEMP>
>
>
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