For a CALS table, @frame="all" draws a border around all four outside edges of the table; it does not affect the interior lines. See https://dtd.nlm.nih.gov/options/OASIS/tag-library/19990315/index.html To indicate a table with all the grid lines visible, CALS requires @frame="all" as well as @colsep="1" and @rowsep="1" on all <entry> elements (you can omit colsep on the rightmost cells and rowsep on the finalrow). -- Michael R. Boudreau Electronic Publishing Technology Manager The University of Chicago Press 1427 E. 60th Street Chicago, IL 60637 www.journals.uchicago.edu From: oXygen-user <oxygen-user-bounces@oxygenxml.com> on behalf of Frank Dissinger <frank.dissinger@cgs-oris.com> Date: Wednesday, April 12, 2023 at 9:26 AM To: Oxygen User Mailing List <oxygen-user@oxygenxml.com> Subject: [oXygen-user] Understanding @colsep and @rowsep Hi all, Can someone shed some light on how the @colsep and @rowsep attributes are used for CALS tables? The information I found is not clear and detailed enough for me. I understand that these attributes create separator lines for colums and rows. Do I only need these attributes when I do not set @frame="all" to create lines for particular rows or columns only? For a normal CALS table with lines for all rows and columns (i.e. like a grid), is enough to set @frame="all" or do I additionally need these attributes? The code that Oxygen creates (see below) with these settings (i.e. without these attributes) ... [cid:part1.XSPDnEEs.LQ0hfDOH@cgs-oris.com] does not have these @colsep and @rowsep attributes, only @frame="all", and is rendered as desired with my CHM and PDF transformations. I have several tables with @colsep/@rowsep="0" or ="1". These attributes may have been added by FrameMaker when I converted unstructured content to DITA. Can I safely remove all of these attributes when I just want a CALS table with row and line separators every (like a grid)? Regards, Frank -- Frank Dissinger Documentation Manager .................................................................... CGS Publishing Technologies International GmbH Email frank.dissinger@cgs-oris.com<mailto:frank.dissinger@cgs-oris.com> | Web www.cgs-oris.com<https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/www.cgs-oris.com/__;!!BpyFHLRN4TMTrA!5ACIoOFYLTPmsdgcngAoZ9sN46VWzHUjNfEAgnIs-SezUgddHNuOLZcL5uLB5kJihSc93sKzoT0B-X81_34rByVOnnO9_Sfv$> Address Kettelerstr. 24 | D-63512 Hainburg | Germany Phone +49 6182 9626-27 | Fax +49 6182 9626-99 Commercial register Offenbach, HRB no. 21495 Managing directors Bernd Rückert, Christoph Thommessen [https://www.cgs-oris.com/Signatur.png]<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.cgs-oris.com/signatur__;!!BpyFHLRN4TMTrA!5ACIoOFYLTPmsdgcngAoZ9sN46VWzHUjNfEAgnIs-SezUgddHNuOLZcL5uLB5kJihSc93sKzoT0B-X81_34rByVOnhxcGWvh$>
