On Fri, 18 Mar 2011 19:00:42 -0700
Kent Watsen <> wrote:
> Right now, my columns look like this:
>
> +------------------------------------------------------------------+
> | <revnumber> | <date>
> | +------------------------------------------------------------------+
> | <revdescription> - a paragraph containing several sentences -
> | | much longer than either revnumber or date. But this rendering |
> | is not pleasing
> | +------------------------------------------------------------------+
Not pleasing for your use?
>
> When I want them to be more like this:
>
> +------------------------------------------------------------------+
> | <revnumber> | <date> | <revdescription> - a paragraph containing
> | | | | several sentences - much longer than |
> | | | either revnumber or date. This rendering
> | | | | is much preferred, since it has just one |
> | | | row and the first two columns are
> squeezed| | | | to be just big
> enough |
> +------------------------------------------------------------------+
>
>
> http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/FormatRevhistory.html says:
>
> "If you want to further customize the revhistory table, for example
> to adjust column widths or create single-row entries, then customize
> the templates in fo/titlepage.xsl that start with:
>
> <xsl:template match="revhistory" mode="titlepage.mode">
> ...
> <xsl:template match="revhistory/revision" mode="titlepage.mode">
> ...
> "
>
> I've tried a few things, but can't see how to override the default
> behavior. How can it be done? - just use a regular table?
From the appearance it looks like the columns are spanned?
Perhaps if you customise the td element, with a role attribute
you could style it yourself just as you wish
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Dave Pawson
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