drawing a table with different line-widths

["Fries, Markus, fiscus GmbH, Bonn" <M....@fiscus.info>]

Hi,


I have to layout a table like this:

====================
=  -            -  =
=  -    header  -  =
=  -            -  =
====================
=  -            -  =
=  -            -  =
=------------------=
   .
   .
   .
=  -     last   -  =
=  -            -  =
==================== 

My first try was to define border properties on the header, the body and
around all cells. I thought I got it, but when I printed in postscript the
lines were stacked in each other. I used PDF first and that was fine. I need
to get PS though.


Now my second try looks like this

      
      <fo:table>
        <xsl:call-template name="Tabelle"/>
        <fo:table-body border-left="1.5pt" border-right="1.5pt" 
                       border-top="0pt" border-bottom="0pt"
border-style="solid">
        <xsl:apply-templates select="..." mode="tabelle"/>
        </fo:table-body>
      </fo:table> 
      

  <xsl:template name="geheimhaltungsTabelle">
    <fo:table-column column-width="50mm"/>
    <fo:table-column column-width="50mm"/>
    <fo:table-column column-width="50mm"/>    
    <fo:table-header border-width="1.5pt" border-style="solid">
      <fo:table-row>
      <fo:table-cell><fo:block
font-weight="bold">...</fo:block></fo:table-cell>
      <fo:table-cell border-top="0pt" border-bottom="0pt" 
                     border-right="0.5pt" border-left="0.5pt"
border-style="solid">
      <fo:block font-weight="bold">middle cell</fo:block></fo:table-cell>
      <fo:table-cell><fo:block
font-weight="bold">Name</fo:block></fo:table-cell>
      </fo:table-row>
    </fo:table-header>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="..." mode="tabelle">
    <fo:table-row>
      <fo:table-cell  border-top="0pt" border-bottom="0.5pt"
border-left="0pt" border-right="0pt" border-style="solid">
        <fo:block><xsl:value-of select="..."/></fo:block></fo:table-cell>
        <fo:table-cell  border-top="0pt" border-bottom="0.5pt"
border-left="0.5pt" border-right="0.5pt" border-style="solid">
        <fo:block><xsl:value-of select="..."/></fo:block></fo:table-cell>
      <fo:table-cell  border-top="0pt" border-bottom="0.5pt"
border-left="0pt" border-right="0pt" border-style="solid">
        <fo:block><xsl:value-of select="..."/></fo:block></fo:table-cell>
    </fo:table-row>
  </xsl:template>  

results in a gap between header and body. And of course I still have to fix
the bottom line.  I tried fop 0.20.2 and 0.20.3-2002-03-04.  I think it
might have s.th. to do with the border-collapse property, but as it seems
fop or I do not understand the spec.

Can anybody help please?

Best regards

Markus Fries

Re: drawing a table with different line-widths

["J.Pietschmann" <j3...@yahoo.de>]

Fries, Markus, fiscus GmbH, Bonn wrote:
> Now my second try looks like this
...
> results in a gap between header and body. And of course I still have to fix
> the bottom line.  I tried fop 0.20.2 and 0.20.3-2002-03-04.  I think it
> might have s.th. to do with the border-collapse property, but as it seems
> fop or I do not understand the spec.

The implementation for collapsing borders is, well, incomplete.
Read the comments near the end of src/../fo/flow/TableCell.java
why it's not easy to adhere to the spec.
You should probably use border-bottom on the blocks within the
table cells and refrain from specifying different widths for
border-top and border-bottom.

Happy tampering!

J.Pietschmann