Sebastian Rahtz <[log in to unmask]> writes:

>
> Anyone who wants a PDF which is a bit better than "load into Firefox,
> press Print"
> might like to make an HTML from your TEI XML (we all got that far, right?),
> then load the HTML into OpenOffice, manipulate  it there, and print to
> PDF from OO.

I used that poor mans method for a few years, but it gets annoying.
Nowadays I am quite happy with XEP.  They do offer academic licensing
at very reasonable prices (0 Yen) and even gave me the sufficient
amount of licenses for a whole classroom.

Using Sebastians stylesheets (as of Oct. last year, I can't say for
now), the secret to produce reasonable tables is to provide a
tableSpec file, which contains things like

<Info>
<TableSpec id="tab1">
        <fo:table-column column-width="25%" fotex:column-align="L" column-number="1"/>
        <fo:table-column column-width="25%" fotex:column-align="L" column-number="2"/>
        <fo:table-column column-width="25%" fotex:column-align="L" column-number="3"/>
        <fo:table-column column-width="25%" fotex:column-align="L" column-number="4"/>
</TableSpec>
</Info>

All this I gathered from reading the source and experimenting.  I
assume that things changed substantially and in a few months there
will be even documentation!

Christian

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 Christian Wittern
 Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University
 47 Higashiogura-cho, Kitashirakawa, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8265, JAPAN