How to configure rowheader in PDF output?

[yiyi_vivi]

Hi all,

In a table, I want to make the first column as the header, so I use

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<table frame="all" scale="80" rowheader="firstcol" >

But in PDF output, the first column is not bold as in the WebHelp output. And also I want to add a background-color to the first column to make it stand out. Where is the rowheader defined in xsl stylesheet and how can I edit it?

Thank you very much in advance.

Best,
Ivy

[Radu]

Hi Ivy,

Oxygen uses the DITA Open Toolkit to publish DITA content to various output formats and from what I investigated the DITA OT PDF stylesheets do not handle the rowheader attribute in any way.
I added an issue for this one:

https://github.com/dita-ot/dita-ot/issues/1462

It's probably an attribute which is seldom used and nobody noticed that it was not implemented in the PDF output.

Regards,
Radu

[dbutch]

Hi Radu,

Do you know if this was ever resolved, so that the @rowheader attribute can be formatted in a similar manner to the <thead> element in a PDF?
In my CSS I use the following for the <thead>:

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*[class~="topic/thead"] {
	background-color: #E7E6E6;
	font-family: IBMPlexSans-SemiBold;
}

Thanks.

[julien_lacour]

Hello,

You can match both <thead> and entries marked as @rowheader using the following rule:

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th {
	background-color: #E7E6E6;
	font-family: IBMPlexSans-SemiBold;
}

The entries marked as @rowheader are converted in <th> instead of <td> during the transformation.

Regards,
Julien