27.3.6 Using span attributes to identify rows and columns

If complex tables contain header cells that span more than one column or row, you can use the following settings to have Mif2Go generate span-numbered id attributes for the dependent cells. These settings work in concert with Span cells: header cells that are assigned [HTMLParaStyles] property Span, described in §26.2.2 Using paragraph formats for table-cell attributes; or that contain marker type CellSpan, described in §26.2.4 Assigning table-cell attribute values with custom markers.

[Tables]

; ColSpanIDs = No (to use only per markers or formats), or Yes

; adds id=spanN to each cell in header rows that spans columns,

; or that has a CellSpan marker, or contains any para formats

; with [HTMLParaStyles] Span, increments for each one used.

; adds headers=spanN to all cells below the spanning cell.

ColSpanIDs=No

; ColSpanHead is usually "span".

ColSpanHead=span

; RowSpanIDs = No (to use only per markers or formats), or Yes

; adds id=spanN to first cell in each row if it spans rows, or

; if it has a CellSpan marker, or if it has any para formats

; with [HTMLParaStyles] Span, increments for each one used.

; adds headers=spanN to all cells right of the spanning cell.

; if ColSpan used, first ID numerically follows last ColSpanID.

RowSpanIDs=No

; RowSpanHead is usually also "span"; that's why the ID numbers

; used for ColSpan are skipped for RowSpan

RowSpanHead=span

Mif2Go implements cell spans so that you can have several span values that all apply to the same cell. If you specify the [HTMLParaStyles] Span property for paragraph formats (or insert CellSpan markers) in multiple header columns or rows, and the higher-level headers really do span the columns or rows they affect, their span values appear in each dependent cell’s attributes.

You can override each of the *IDs settings in the [TableAccess] section for selected tables by specifying the same setting, prefixed with No, as a property; see §27.4 Overriding default table-cell settings.

Column-span and row-span identifiers

The values you specify for ColSpanHead and RowSpanHead are the names Mif2Go uses for column-spanning and row-spanning header-cell identifiers. For example, if you specify ColSpanHead=sname, every column-header Span cell gets attribute id="snameN". If you do not specify values for ColSpanHead and RowSpanHead, Mif2Go uses the default, span, for both; and numbers the row-spanning header cells starting where the column-spanning numbers end.

Column spans

When you specify ColSpanIDs=Yes, Mif2Go generates the following identifiers:

id="spanN"	for each column-header Span cell (cell containing a paragraph designated [HTMLParaStyles] Span, or a CellSpan marker).
headers="spanN"	for each cell in each column below (spanned by) the id="spann" cell.

Row spans

When you specify RowSpanIDs=Yes, Mif2Go generates the following identifiers:

id="spanN"	for each row-header Span cell (cell containing a paragraph designated [HTMLParaStyles] Span, or a CellSpan marker), and that does not have a column ID.
headers="spanN"	for each cell in each row to the right of the id="spann" cell.

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