Re: Bold and Formatting within a Table

[Norman Walsh <norm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

/ Chuck Darney <cdarney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> was heard to say:
| I've been trying to figure out why I can't use a bold markup tag in a
| table.  As it turns out, no other formatting of elements seems to be
| working in a table either.  Does anyone else have this problem?  

Yes.  Everyone does.  :-(

If you start an ENTRY with an inline tag, the inline tag (and
all subsequent tags) get ignored.  The quick solution is to put
a PARA wrapper around the content of the entry.

But...

The really good news is that I've reexamined the way I process
tables and I think I've found a way to avoid all the ugly
hacking nonsense that's currently done to format inline
vs. block elements correctly.

All that $process-cell-*-contents$ cruft can go away!

If you want to make it work right now, change two things in your
customization layer.  Add:

(element (ENTRY PARA)
  (make paragraph
    quadding: (inherited-quadding)
    (process-children)))

to get the quadding right in PARAs in an ENTRY.

And define $process-cell-contents$ as follows:

(define ($process-cell-contents$ entry colnum)
  (let ((font-name (if (have-ancestor? "THEAD" entry)
		       %title-font-family%
		       %body-font-family%))
	(weight    (if (have-ancestor? "THEAD" entry)
		       'bold
		       'medium))
	(align     (cell-align entry colnum)))
    (make sequence
      font-family-name: font-name
      font-weight: weight
      quadding: align
      (process-node-list (children entry)))))

If you try this, please report any troubles that you have.

--norm


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