Creating a Title Page (STILL!)

Subject: Creating a Title Page (STILL!)
From: Chuck Darney <cdarney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 08:49:21 -0400
I'm using a table that looks like this to create a title page:

<table frame="none">
<tgroup cols="1" colsep="0" rowsep="0">
<colspec colwidth="6.5in">
<tbody>
<row><entry morerows="1" align="center" valign="top">Stuff</entry></row>
<row><entry></entry></row>
<row><entry morerows="1" align="center" valign="top">Stuff</entry></row>
<row><entry></entry></row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
</table>

When processed, I get the following error:
1st argument for primitive "car" of wrong type: "()" not a pair

The error is in the "(if (equal? (car overtail) 0)" line of the
"(define (overhang-skip overhang startcol)" function of the Modular
DocBook style sheet (1.08b6).

I'm using the 1.08b6 files.

Is this something I'm doing wrong?  If I take the "morerows" out, it
works fine.  I need to span rows to make more room for a larger font
being used in the cell content.

I'm trying to use a table to format a title page.  It seemed easier to
create a table that rows and columns could be added and modified to
place text at the desired location on the page.  For the prototype I'm
developing, each deliverable has a different title page in a radically
different format.  The table lets me do each one in a different SGM
fragment.

Anyway...I needed to make the characters larger.  I have an element
"LRG"  (ala HTML 3 DTD "BIG") that doubles the %bf-size%.  When used on
the text in a cell, the text gets larger but the row stays the same
height.  The letters get cut off.  Specifying row heights doesn't work
so I thought I would try spanning 2 rows to see if I would have enough
space to fits the characters in without cutting them off. I only have 2
lines on this particular title page...both in a large typeface.  One at
the top, one at the bottom.  That's why the example is the way it is.

...Chuck Darney
...cdarney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


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