Re: [XSL-FO] Strategies for dealing with translated tables
- Chris Bowditch wrote:
> pcarey@... wrote:Auto might work but specific results with auto layout are explicitly not
> > Hello.
> > Our authors use the XHTML table model to create XML tables, which are then
> > transformed into XSL-FO and then PDF. Our XML is translated into quite a
> > few languages. If an author specifies precise (absolute) column widths, I'm
> > not sure things will work, once the XML is translated. A table column sized
> > for English may not work for, say, German. Hyphenation is not an option,
> > either.
> > One approach might be to only honor the column widths for English content,
> > but I am not sure that this is the best approach.
> Surely the approach would be to use table-layout="auto" so that the columns
> resize to accomodate the content just as in HTML.
guaranteed. Also, not all FO implementations support auto layout.
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