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Rob Beezer
Jul 1, 2026, 3:45:45 PM (9 days ago) Jul 1
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Just finished a big push working on "tabular". Which are hard - ask Alex. A
lot of very involved XSL was written a long time ago, and really needed a
refactor. My assistant did a nice job with it. See PRs #2986, #2987, #2988 for
lots of details. Both LaTeX and HTML, with a little bit of improvement on XSL-FO.
* Refactored alignment and rule specifications into pretext-common.xsl.
* Vastly reduced the parameters being passed between templates. One template
once had 11 parameters.
* Fixed some real problems with the XSL-FO work that eventually would have been
grossly apparent to authors.
* Fixed a few known weaknesses in the code.
* Added a checker to the "validation-plus" stylesheet that detects rows that
have too many, or too few, cells.
* As a result, found, and corrected, 17 "ragged" tables in the sample article.
But mostly this is a "heads-up" if any problems become apparent based on the
changes.
Rob
lot of very involved XSL was written a long time ago, and really needed a
refactor. My assistant did a nice job with it. See PRs #2986, #2987, #2988 for
lots of details. Both LaTeX and HTML, with a little bit of improvement on XSL-FO.
* Refactored alignment and rule specifications into pretext-common.xsl.
* Vastly reduced the parameters being passed between templates. One template
once had 11 parameters.
* Fixed some real problems with the XSL-FO work that eventually would have been
grossly apparent to authors.
* Fixed a few known weaknesses in the code.
* Added a checker to the "validation-plus" stylesheet that detects rows that
have too many, or too few, cells.
* As a result, found, and corrected, 17 "ragged" tables in the sample article.
But mostly this is a "heads-up" if any problems become apparent based on the
changes.
Rob
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