Subject: RE: "nested tables" in Jade&RTF ? From: "joseph, Gershon" <Gershon_joseph@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 14:06:16 +0200 |
Steve, RTF does not support nested tables. In fact, RTF does not really support tables as such. In RTF, a table row is a special form of a paragraph, which can contain one or more cells, which are placed side-by-side in the "paragraph". I have actually created RTF that mimics a table within a table, using Omnimark to code my transformation from SGML to RTF. I could not achieve the same effect using DSSSL and Jade. The RTF I created simply puts enough cells into each row to handle the nested table, and I format the header row of the nested table accordingly. I could send you a sample RTF output to show you what I mean. If this works for you, I could send you my Omnimark program so you'll have something to start from... Good luck! Gershon Gershon Leib Joseph DOCUMENTATION TECHNOLOGIES MANAGER Comverse Network Systems Tel: +972-3-645-2001 Fax: +972-3-645-4088 email: gershon_joseph@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: Steve Weyer [mailto:sweyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 1999 12:16 PM To: dssslist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: "nested tables" in Jade&RTF ? my impression is that having nested tables isn't possible due to either Jade and/or RTF limitations. I was wondering if there were other approaches that some of you had used. I could go back and try to redefine my data nesting in XML, then just include more columns in the main table (but I was hoping to avoid major trauma to the data organization) I had thought about embedding tab characters inside a table cell, but wasn't sure whether/how to define tab stop positions, or define/include the tab chars themselves. a desperate approach might be to use a fixed font (like Courier) and pad with spaces (uggh!) like <PRE>. other DSSSL techniques for lining up text in nested columns? thanks Steve DSSSList info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist DSSSList info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist
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