Is there a simple way to force a table to actually generate rules around all cells when generating html from docbook? <table rules="all"> is not doing it. Right now, I’m having to insert non-breaking spaces to force empty cells to get rules, which means I have a lot of lines like this:

<td> <!-- nonbreaking space --></td>

in a sparse table. This is okay – easily generated with global replace – but a but of a nuisance. PDFs generated from the same source are ruled correctly, but the HTML is not, unless the &nbsp is inserted.

Or, for a workaround, is it possible to add a non-breaking space to the “insert from character map” options in a future version?

(speaking of the character map, it would be really nice if the non-printing characters were labelled – I can usually remember that U+000D is a CR, but the others I have to look up)

Cheers,

-Jon Kiparsky