Thank you! Hm... These attributes were set on <table> and <tgroup> in my DITA files, but not on <entry>, and the attribute value was sometimes = "0", sometimes = "1". Nevertheless the tables rendered correctly, but perhaps only because I have set up the CSS and MiramoPDF styles to create frames for all table cells for all <table> elements. I'll have to investigate this... So perhaps, to keep my DITA data portable and to ensure they are rendered correctly with other transformations, it would be safer to also set @colsep and @rowsep to "1". But really for each <entry>? Wouldn't it be enough for <table>? Frank ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Am 12.04.2023 um 16:36 schrieb Michael Boudreau:
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).
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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) ...
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
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