Docbook 5 html table colgroup / cols problem

Martin Goik <[email protected]> Sun, 26 Apr 2020 21:44:46 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.editors.xxe.general
Organization	Stuttgart Media University
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Consider the following Doocbook 5.1 html style (Not CALS) informaltable:

<informaltable border="1">
      <colgroup width="40%"/>
      <colgroup width="60%"/>

      <tr>
        <td>left</td>
        <td>right</td>
      </tr>
</informaltable>

The Xmleditor table plugin allows for conveniently resizing table
columns using mouse dragging thereby adjusting @width values
accordingly. However when converting the instance to PDF using the
built-in Fop processor these values are not being honored at all: All
columns appear with equal width regardless of any <colgroup> settings. I
tinkered using fop1.extensions=1 and other parameters to no avail.

However when replacing <colgroup> by <col> elements the PDF result
correctly reflects all parameter values:

<informaltable border="1">
      <col width="40%"/>
      <col width="60%"/>

      <tr>
        <td>left</td>

        <td>right</td>
      </tr>
</informaltable>

Unfortunately using the mouse  for column drag next time reverts back to
using<colgroups>. And any <col> child entries of <colgroup> get purged
as well.

Though having searched thoroughly for conversion parameters I might miss
something.

Martin Goik

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