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USING QUARKXPRESS SERVER
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For each row and column, you can specify the following things:
C
OLOR
:
Cell background color.
S
HADE
:
Cell background shade.
S
TORYDIRECTION
:
Story direction.
You can automatically adjust and position pictures in table cells. The
VALIGN@ENTRY and ALIGNMENT@ENTRY attributes lets you specify the alignment of
a cell, including picture cells.
The child attribute
ORIENTATION lets you specify the orientation of the table, like
so:
<INLINETABLE> ORIENTATION=”LANDSCAPE”>
.
..
On a portrait page, this would effectively rotate the table in a clock wise direction,
while the page itself is not rotated.
The child
PICTUREATTRIBUTES element lets you specify several picture attributes,
including flip horizontal, flip vertical, angle, background and color, on picture cells
of the table.
This does not create a breakable table. The table will be confined to a single page.
If the number of rows is greater than the available rectangular size of the parent
box, an error is returned stating the table cannot be fit into the available size.
If you deconstruct a table that was created with an <INLINETABLE> element, the
resulting XML describes the table as a <TABLE> element, not an <INLINETABLE>
element.
Column Attributes
An <INLINETABLE> can also include optional <COLGROUP> elements, which allow
you to specify column attrbutes in the form of
<TCOL> elements, like so:
<INLINETABLE>
<COLGROUP>
<TCOL COLINDEX=”1” WIDTH=”250”/>
<TCOL COLINDEX=”2” MINWIDTH =”30pt” MAXWIDTH = “90pt”/>
<TCOL COLINDEX=”3” MINWIDTH =”20%” MAXWIDTH = “50%”/>
</COLGROUP>
...
The COLINDEX value indicates the column number.
You can specify the
WIDTH of a column in points by omitting a unit indicator, or
as a percentage of the table width by including a
% after the number.
You can specify the
MINWIDTH and MAXWIDTH of a column in points by omitting
a unit indicator, or as a percentage of the table width by including a % after the
number.
If no width is indicated, the column widths will be automatically computed
depending on the length of the text in a cell or image in a cell. The sum total width
of all columns would remain within the bounds of the parent box column width
(typically the Automatic text box into which the table is laid out).