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1 <?xml version="1.0"?>
2
3 <reference xml:id="table-templates"><?dbhtml dir="fo"?>
4   
5   <info>
6     <title>Formatting Object Table Reference</title>
7     <releaseinfo role="meta">
8       $Id: table.xsl 8814 2010-08-09 21:19:53Z bobstayton $
9     </releaseinfo>
10   </info>
11   <partintro xml:id="partintro">
12     <title>Introduction</title>
13     
14 <para>This is technical reference documentation for the FO
15       table-processing templates in the DocBook XSL Stylesheets.</para>
16
17     
18 <para>This is not intended to be user documentation.  It is
19       provided for developers writing customization layers for the
20       stylesheets.</para>
21
22   </partintro>
23
24 <refentry xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xml:id="template.calc.column.width">
25 <refnamediv>
26 <refname>calc.column.width</refname>
27 <refpurpose>Calculate an XSL FO table column width specification from a
28 CALS table column width specification.</refpurpose>
29 </refnamediv>
30 <refsynopsisdiv>
31 <synopsis>&lt;xsl:template name="calc.column.width"&gt;
32 &lt;xsl:param name="colwidth"&gt;1*&lt;/xsl:param&gt;
33   ...
34 &lt;/xsl:template&gt;</synopsis>
35 </refsynopsisdiv>
36 <refsect1><title>Description</title>
37
38 <para>CALS expresses table column widths in the following basic
39 forms:</para>
40
41
42
43 <itemizedlist>
44 <listitem>
45
46 <para><emphasis>99.99units</emphasis>, a fixed length specifier.</para>
47
48 </listitem>
49 <listitem>
50
51 <para><emphasis>99.99</emphasis>, a fixed length specifier without any units.</para>
52
53 </listitem>
54 <listitem>
55
56 <para><emphasis>99.99*</emphasis>, a relative length specifier.</para>
57
58 </listitem>
59 <listitem>
60
61 <para><emphasis>99.99*+99.99units</emphasis>, a combination of both.</para>
62
63 </listitem>
64 </itemizedlist>
65
66
67
68 <para>The CALS units are points (pt), picas (pi), centimeters (cm),
69 millimeters (mm), and inches (in). These are the same units as XSL,
70 except that XSL abbreviates picas "pc" instead of "pi". If a length
71 specifier has no units, the CALS default unit (pt) is assumed.</para>
72
73
74
75 <para>Relative length specifiers are represented in XSL with the
76 proportional-column-width() function.</para>
77
78
79
80 <para>Here are some examples:</para>
81
82
83
84 <itemizedlist>
85 <listitem>
86
87 <para>"36pt" becomes "36pt"</para>
88
89 </listitem>
90 <listitem>
91
92 <para>"3pi" becomes "3pc"</para>
93
94 </listitem>
95 <listitem>
96
97 <para>"36" becomes "36pt"</para>
98
99 </listitem>
100 <listitem>
101
102 <para>"3*" becomes "proportional-column-width(3)"</para>
103
104 </listitem>
105 <listitem>
106
107 <para>"3*+2pi" becomes "proportional-column-width(3)+2pc"</para>
108
109 </listitem>
110 <listitem>
111
112 <para>"1*+2" becomes "proportional-column-width(1)+2pt"</para>
113
114 </listitem>
115 </itemizedlist>
116
117 </refsect1><refsect1><title>Parameters</title>
118
119 <variablelist>
120 <varlistentry><term>colwidth</term>
121 <listitem>
122
123 <para>The CALS column width specification.</para>
124
125 </listitem>
126 </varlistentry>
127 </variablelist>
128
129 </refsect1><refsect1><title>Returns</title>
130
131 <para>The XSL column width specification.</para>
132
133 </refsect1></refentry>
134 </reference>
135