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Dear All,

I've migrated some old customization layer and found it behaves differently
for certain tables.

When no colwidths are specified, I expect all columns occupy just required
width (as in case of HTML tables). But in 1.78.1 such a table is stretched
to the all available width and columns are distributed evenly (XEP). It
looks ugly especially if you have few narrow columns.

Using a diff tool I found it is caused by removing the condition mentioned
in this thread:
https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-apps/201005/msg00061.html

I fixed it (inserted that condition back) in my customization layer, it work
as expected, but it would be nice to fix/improve the trunk code as well.

Or is it rather XEP bug which doesn't follow specification and renders
tables incorrectly?

Thanks, Jan

Hi,

I noticed the same thing - that the auto-adjusting-table-column-width feature in XEP stopped working when I tested to upgrade to 1.76.something.

IIRC, it had to do with how the colwidth attribute is handled: in 1.76 and later, if colwidth isn’t set for a column, it is automatically assumed that ”1*” should be used, whereas in earlier versions no column width at all is specified in the FO.

I wrote a customization that re-enabled XEP’s auto-column-width feature that we ended up never using since we didn't migrate from 1.75 (if it’s not broken…). But I think I may be able to dig it up again, if anyone should be interested.

Best Regards
/Ola

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27 apr 2015 kl. 23:43 skrev Jan Tosovsky <j.tosovsky@email.cz>:

> Dear All,
>
> I've migrated some old customization layer and found it behaves differently
> for certain tables.
>
> When no colwidths are specified, I expect all columns occupy just required
> width (as in case of HTML tables). But in 1.78.1 such a table is stretched
> to the all available width and columns are distributed evenly (XEP). It
> looks ugly especially if you have few narrow columns.
>
> Using a diff tool I found it is caused by removing the condition mentioned
> in this thread:
> https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-apps/201005/msg00061.html
>
> I fixed it (inserted that condition back) in my customization layer, it work
> as expected, but it would be nice to fix/improve the trunk code as well.
>
> Or is it rather XEP bug which doesn't follow specification and renders
> tables incorrectly?
>
> Thanks, Jan
> <winmail.dat>
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