Re: jade/docbook/norm walsh's stylesheets upgrade?

Subject: Re: jade/docbook/norm walsh's stylesheets upgrade?
From: "Thomas G. Lockhart" <lockhart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 1997 21:42:31 +0000
> > These docs make extensive use of tables, and the Norm Walsh v0.89 style
> > sheets I am using do not support tables in html and put table items in
> > the wrong places for tex/postscript (e.g. header rows are placed at the
> > bottom, right above footer rows).
>
> The recent large-scale changes to the table code were to provide better
> support for vertically spanning entries.  If your tables have a lot of
> those, they will work better with the latest versions.
>
> If your tables don't use horizontal or vertical spans, I would expect
> them to work in 0.89, but I'm still gonna recommend that you upgrade
> before telling me that they don't work ;-)

*sheesh* I _really_ tried to be patient before send off mail, but of course
sent too soon. It turns out that the print style sheets I'm using are some
vintage of yours, but the html ones are of some other lineage. Your new html
ones work great. Small details like lots of lines of

 jade:/home/tgl/SGML/dbhtm09.d/docbook/html/dbtable.dsl:343:17:E: invalid
value for "attributes" characteristic

might be due to my overuse of unnecessary attributes in my table sources, and
I'll strip them down to the minimum soon. My initial tests were led astray my
misuse of your new stylesheets. Thanks for the pointers.

The print tables still have a peculiar appearance, probably due to my misuse.
In the example included at the end of this message, I get something like

Table 1-1. Supported Platforms
         DECstation         3000
                                             Alpha        AXP
                                             OSF/1 2.1, 3.0, 3.2
...
       Architecture
                                             Processor
                                             Operating System

Where I would like
Table 1-1. Supported Platforms
       Architecture           Processor           Operating System
       DECstation 3000   Alpha AXP        OSF/1 2.1, 3.0, 3.2
....

(The stuff is scattered all over the page, but lines up in a predictable way;
I've probably got the wrong number of spaces in the example above. I _know_
I'm doing something wrong, but could use a hint; I took the table templates
directly from the O'Reilly dtdparse web page.)

> P.S. I haven't tried JadeTeX in a long time.  Does anyone with
> more experience have any comments?

Is there another alternative for print output?

Thanks again for your help. In the span of a few minutes I'm over the biggest
hurdle and have ~100 pages of typeset and html documentation.

                                                           - Tom


<TABLE>
<TITLE>Supported Platforms</TITLE>
<TITLEABBREV>Platforms</TITLEABBREV>
<TGROUP COLS="3">
<THEAD>
  <ROW>
    <ENTRY>Architecture</ENTRY>
    <ENTRY>Processor</ENTRY>
    <ENTRY>Operating System</ENTRY>
  </ROW>
</THEAD>

<TBODY>
  <ROW>
    <ENTRY>DECstation 3000</ENTRY>
    <ENTRY>Alpha AXP</ENTRY>
    <ENTRY>OSF/1 2.1, 3.0, 3.2</ENTRY>
  </ROW>
  <ROW>
    <ENTRY>Sun4</ENTRY>
    <ENTRY>SPARC</ENTRY>
    <ENTRY>Solaris 2.5.1</ENTRY>
  </ROW>
  <ROW>
    <ENTRY>H-P 9000/700 and 800</ENTRY>
    <ENTRY>PA-RISC</ENTRY>
    <ENTRY>HP-UX 9.03, 10.20</ENTRY>
  </ROW>
  <ROW>
    <ENTRY>Intel</ENTRY>
    <ENTRY>X86</ENTRY>
    <ENTRY>Linux 2.0.x (ELF)</ENTRY>
  </ROW>
</TBODY>
</TGROUP>
</TABLE>



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