RE: spanning rows

Subject: RE: spanning rows
From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 14:08:23 -0400
At 00/04/18 11:54 -0400, Maltby, David G wrote:
Do you get:
+---+---+
|one|two|
+---+---+
|three  |
+-------+

The above illustrates spanned columns, not rows.


I find I have to explicitly skip the definition of the column of the second row.

The following works for me:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mok [mailto:cmok@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 12:03 PM
> To: 'dssslist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: spanning rows
>
>
> simple question,
> how do you have a cell spanning a two rows.
>
> i have tried this simple test
>
> (root
>   (make simple-page-sequence
>
>     (make table
>       (make table-row
>       (make table-cell
>         n-rows-spanned: 2
>         (make paragraph (literal "one")))
>       (make table-cell
>         (make paragraph (literal "two"))))
>
>       (make table-row
>       (make table-cell

Add here: column-number: 2



>         (make paragraph (literal "three")))))))
>
> but nothing spans!

With the addition above it spans for me.


I hope this helps.

............. Ken

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