Bug 444551 - Add support for <entrytbl>
Summary: Add support for <entrytbl>
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Publican
Classification: Community
Component: publican
Version: 2.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jeff Fearn 🐞
QA Contact: Michael Hideo
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-04-29 02:20 UTC by David O'Brien
Modified: 2010-11-24 03:57 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2008-04-29 05:15:12 UTC
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Description David O'Brien 2008-04-29 02:20:18 UTC
Description of problem:

This tag is used to create nested tables, and currently returns a warning on
make test:
WARNING: Unknown tag: entrytbl. This tag may not be displayed correctly

http://www.docbook.org/tdg/en/html/entrytbl.html

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Comment 1 Jeff Fearn 🐞 2008-04-29 05:15:12 UTC
Nested tables cause enormous problems in the PDF output, make debugging and
supporting the tool chain significantly more difficult, and usually reflect poor
content structure. For these reasons this tag will not receive support.

e.g. the table in the IPA release notes would be better layed out with the most
significant factor, the number of entries, on the left hand side:

Num Entries  | RAM   | HDD | CPU
10K - 250K   | 256MB | 2GB | P3
250K - 1M    | 512MB | 4GB | P3
1M+          | 1GB   | 8GB | P3

This removes the table nesting and makes it far more obvious to the reader what
the important factor is for deciding hardware requirements.



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