On Tue, Jul 22 2008 18:31:56 +0100, davidc@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>    <fo:table-body>
>   <fo:table-row>
>     <fo:table-cell width="2.5in">AAA</fo:table-cell>
>     <fo:table-cell width="2.5in">BBB</fo:table-cell>
>   </fo:table-row>
>
> don't you want 
>
> <fo:table-column column-width="2.5in"/>
> <fo:table-column column-width="2.5in"/>
>
> before that table body?

The fixed widths can be taken from the cells in the first row.  XSL FO
behaves like CSS2 [1] in this (though xmlroff currently doesn't support
this).

Regards,


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[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/tables.html#fixed-table-layout