Yes, it's me, I'm back again with another problem.
I'm still working here on Thoreau's "Walden" (and various other Thoreau-related works) and especially in that particular book he has quite a few different tables. I've included here one of the weirder ones that I had to -- or tried to -- duplicate, and if I could get this one table figured out then I'm sure I'll manage with all the other ones.
I'm sure the three attachments here should illustrate what I'm trying to accomplish, and the problem(s) I'm having.
walden-table-original.jpg is the page from the 1906 edition (i.e. the original print edition, of course) of "Walden" showing the table that I'm trying to duplicate.
walden-table.epub is basically what I came up with for my ebook, with the following two attachments being screenshots of that...
walden-table-ipad.png is a screenshot of this latter epub as it display on the iPad -- basically what I'd expected and hoped for, although apart from other issues (which you'll see with the ADE screenshot, below),
I do wish that I could conjure up a way to do up a long (tall), "stretchy" curly bracket (brace), one that would increase/decrease in length (i.e. height) without getting fatter in the process. Any ideas on that one, while I'm here?
walden-table-ade.png is a screenshot of the same in ADE, which shows the problems I'm having. Obviously, this is far more important for me to get right than it is to do so on the iPad -- although I do find it odd that things displayed as I'd hoped,
as I'd coded it, on the latter, but things just go haywire in ADE.
I guess the issues I see with this are...
- How come the widths of my table columns are being ignored in ADE? They should be coming out more nicely spaced (as I'd specified in my code) as they do on the iPad, but it seems like ADE just completely ignores what I set them as.
- How come there's no hyphenation of the word "experiments" in the bottom-right hand column in that table?
- Although you don't see it in this ADE screenshot (in the two-page layout), in a one-page, wider layout the table defaults to aligning itself on the left of the page. Although this is a "bigger" table, I do have a whole bunch of other smaller table to deal with, too, and it would be nice if I could get them all to center (horizontally) in the page -- I just can't seem to figure out how to do so, though! It almost makes me long for ye olden days, when we had the simple <center></center> tag, because text-align:center doesn't cut it.
Right now, I just have no idea what to do about these various tables -- and there's lots of them, and in another book of Thoreau's ("The Maine Woods") I just realized that I'm going to have a TON of them (in the appendix), too.
Thanks in advance, as always, for any and all help!
