Alternatives to auto table layout

2004-05-25 Thread James Earl
Hi, I'm just curious to know what people have found works best for them as an alternative to achieving somewhat auto table layout? I'm currently trying to figure out what I should do. I've just started learning XSL as a result of beginning to use FOP to try to automatically create a catalogue

RE: Alternatives to auto table layout

2004-05-25 Thread James Earl
On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 16:08, Andreas L. Delmelle wrote: -Original Message- From: James Earl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, snip / I'm just curious to know what people have found works best for them as an alternative to achieving somewhat auto table layout? I'm currently

RE: Alternatives to auto table layout

2004-05-26 Thread James Earl
On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 18:14, Andreas L. Delmelle wrote: -Original Message- From: James Earl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi James, Thanks for the example. vMax is a string length in this example though, right? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think proportional-column

RE: Alternatives to auto table layout

2004-05-26 Thread James Earl
On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 10:08, James Earl wrote: On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 18:14, Andreas L. Delmelle wrote: Say you have a max record width (sum of all respective max field widths) of 65, then each column gets its width according to a calculation like [( proportional-width / 65

RE: Alternatives to auto table layout

2004-05-26 Thread James Earl
On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 11:12, James Earl wrote: On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 10:08, James Earl wrote: On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 18:14, Andreas L. Delmelle wrote: Say you have a max record width (sum of all respective max field widths) of 65, then each column gets its width according

Re: Alternatives to auto table layout

2004-05-26 Thread James Earl
On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 11:32, Julian Reschke wrote: James Earl wrote: ... Well, at least now I understand why! Man, this is easy, who needs auto table layout!!! Well. If it's that easy, I don't understand why FOP can't do this on it's own rather than requiring special workarounds

Re: Alternatives to auto table layout

2004-05-26 Thread James Earl
On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 11:36, James Earl wrote: On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 11:32, Julian Reschke wrote: James Earl wrote: ... Well, at least now I understand why! Man, this is easy, who needs auto table layout!!! Well. If it's that easy, I don't understand why FOP can't do

RE: Alternatives to auto table layout

2004-05-26 Thread James Earl
On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 11:50, Andreas L. Delmelle wrote: -Original Message- From: James Earl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi James, I'm not sure if I'm doing this right... but the following gave acceptable results: snip / Total: 53 So far, you're on the right track