Re: more advanced table column aligning

On Fri, May 02 2008 22:06:39 +0100, armyofda12mnkeys@gmail.com wrote:
> i was requested to change my columns of a table i made from center
> aligned to flush right since the table cells were numbers like $10.00
> and needed to be aligned.
> and I did that. but then the clients wanted the header row columns
> centered over those flush right columns. kinda got stumped. i thought
> easiest way would be to leave all the table cells  (header and data
> rows) flush right but apply negative margins to the right side of the
> header row's cells (so slightly moving those columns to the right).
> That didnt seem to work (negative margins werent respected in newest
> FOP). Then I changed the header columns back to center align but left
> the data columns at flush right, and applied regular right margins to
> each data cell. So basically moved the columns to look like they are
> centered. This was alot more work.
> Is there a better way to do this?

There's also:

   text-align="." (which may need to be text-align="'.'")

for aligning on the decimal point, although YMMV about whether your
processor does the right thing or not.

See [1], which refers to [2].

Since neither XSL 1.1 nor CSS2 say where to put the alignment character,
the XSL 2.0 requirements draft discusses specification of the alignment
position [3].

In the absence of text-align="." (and XSL 2.0), you've probably done the
best you can.

Regards,


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[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl11/#text-align
[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-CSS2/tables.html#column-alignment
[3] http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-xslfo20-req-20080326/#N66218

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