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  • 1.  RTF output with FO - Column width in tables is zero?

    Posted 09-12-2013 23:42
    Hi,
    I'm generating RTF output with FO, but some of the tables it generates
    have a cell width of zero? Specifically, they have 'cellx0' where they
    should have cellx(some increasing number), eg. cellx1000, cellx2000,
    cellx3000 for a three column table.

    When opening the resulting RTF in MS Word, the table size can't be reset.

    I can hack the RTF manually to fix this, but is there a better way?

    My docbook-xsl/VERSION says "1.74.3". It's not actually clear to me how to
    upgrade to a later version! I'm on a Mac, and brew's latest is 5.0, but the
    website says 5.1. I assume I'm supposed to install these files:
    http://www.docbook.org/xml/5.1b8/rng/ but I'm not sure where/how. Are there
    installation instructions somewhere?

    thanks!
    Nathan



  • 2.  Re: [docbook-apps] RTF output with FO - Column width in tables is zero?

    Posted 09-16-2013 17:35
    Hi Nathan,
    How are you generating RTF with FO? With FOP? If so, it is likely that
    this problem is coming from FOP rather than DocBook XSL. The Apache
    project webpage for FOP includes this note: "RTF output is inferior to
    other output formats supported by FOP."

    Regarding the version numbers you mentioned, the "1.74.3" is a DocBook XSL
    stylesheet version number, and the "5.0" is a DocBook schema version number.
    The 5.1 schema version is not yet released as an official standard, so I
    would not recommend basing your system on it. You could upgrade your XSL
    stylesheet version to the latest 1.78.1. The following reference describes
    how to install them:

    http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/InstallStylesheets.html

    but I'm not sure what else is needed to get them working on a Mac system.

    Bob Stayton
    Sagehill Enterprises
    bobs@sagehill.net


    From: Nathan Bailey
    Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2013 4:42 PM
    To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
    Subject: [docbook-apps] RTF output with FO - Column width in tables is zero?


    Hi,

    I'm generating RTF output with FO, but some of the tables it generates have
    a cell width of zero? Specifically, they have 'cellx0' where they should
    have cellx(some increasing number), eg. cellx1000, cellx2000, cellx3000 for
    a three column table.


    When opening the resulting RTF in MS Word, the table size can't be reset.


    I can hack the RTF manually to fix this, but is there a better way?


    My docbook-xsl/VERSION says "1.74.3". It's not actually clear to me how to
    upgrade to a later version! I'm on a Mac, and brew's latest is 5.0, but the
    website says 5.1. I assume I'm supposed to install these files:
    http://www.docbook.org/xml/5.1b8/rng/ but I'm not sure where/how. Are there
    installation instructions somewhere?


    thanks!

    Nathan




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