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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Is there a simple way to force a table to actually generate
rules around all cells when generating html from docbook?</span></font><font
color=black><span style='color:black'> </span></font><font color="#000096"><span
style='color:#000096'><table</span></font><font color="#f5844c"><span
style='color:#F5844C'> rules</span></font><font color="#ff8040"><span
style='color:#FF8040'>=</span></font><font color="#993300"><span
style='color:#993300'>"all"</span></font><font color="#000096"><span
style='color:#000096'>> </span></font>is not doing it<font color="#000096"><span
style='color:#000096'>. </span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>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: <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>
</span></font><font color="#000096"><span style='color:#000096'><td></span></font><font
color=black><span style='color:black'> </span></font><font
color=darkgreen><span style='color:darkgreen'><!-- nonbreaking space --></span></font><font
color="#000096"><span style='color:#000096'></td><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>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. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Or, for a workaround, is it possible to add a non-breaking
space to the “insert from character map” options in a future
version? <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>(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)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Cheers,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>-Jon Kiparsky<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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