Re: complex table layout problem

2006-03-01 Thread Jason R Briggs
Hi Manuel Sorry forgot to mention I'm using TRUNK. I just went through my xml and explicitly set widths on all my nested tables. Looks like it now produces the output I'm expecting. Thanks for the help. J Manuel Mall wrote: Jason, firstly you didn't say which version of FOP you are using

Re: complex table layout problem

2006-03-01 Thread Manuel Mall
Jason, firstly you didn't say which version of FOP you are using. Secondly, neither version of FOP supports HTML like automatic table layout i.e. column width determination based on column content. To achieve what you want you need to specify column widths and table widths. In particular under e

complex table layout problem

2006-03-01 Thread Jason R Briggs
Hi all I am reproducing a rather complicated layout which requires a number of nested tables: Basically the page looks something like this (a header with 2 columns, followed by a table with 4 columns, 2 columns spanning 2 rows, and one cell spanning 2 columns): ---