Santy, Michael wrote: > I can understand the rationale of making table cells as wide as possible > by default to ease editing within cells. However, I think the closer > that you can render the table in XXE to the final rendered product is a > good thing. I think that adding support for the pgwide attribute (or a > corresponding css attribute on table-body) will save some unnecessary > iteration between editing and rendering a document to get the tables to > look correct. >
Frankly, we cannot implement this kind of RFE. The whole point of structured documents is to forget about the rendering of the document you are editing and instead totally focus on its contents. You may consider educating your users not to iterate between editing and rendering a document. In my experience, doing so is not needed (if a table looks OK in XXE, it will look OK--even if it looks different--in the XHTML, PDF[*], etc), and therefore, is counter-productive. --- [*] In some cases, the rendering of HTML tables by the DocBook XSL style sheets, when these style sheets are used to generate XSL-FOs, is buggy.
