Table Cell Sizes

[LW White]

Hi Brenda,

As far as I know, Frame cannot dynamically resize table cells based on their contents. This would be a difficult thing to accomplish and could easily result in extremely wide table cells if there were no manual returns in the text of a cell. You can either set a table's exact width and specify an exact width for each column or you can set proportional widths for the table and each column (n%), but not dynamic widths. It would be great if such a thing were possible--especialy in translated text which can be significantly longer than English and thus wrap very oddly in table columns set for the width of the English text. Unfortunately, I am unaware of any way this can be done, either in Frame or in XML/HTML. It might just be possible with XSLT, using some kind of character count, but it would be complicated and quite ad hoc.

Best,
Leigh


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From: BGeorge at federatedinv.com
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:58:54 -0500
Subject: Table Cell Sizes

I am having problems with table cells enlarging table enlarging or contracting based on the amount of data that is flowed into the table cells.
 
 
 
I need for the cells to adhere to the pre-set size set in the table.
 
 
 
Is there a setting in FrameMaker that modifies table behavior, allowing table size to adjust based on volume of data? If so, how do I change that setting?
 
Brenda George
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