8.5.2 Adjusting table appearance
You can fine-tune a few aspects of table appearance in WinHelp:
These settings apply to all tables in the document:
; TableRules = None (help default), or one of the Box types:
; Box, Double, Thick, Shadow, Para, or Variable
; TableFill = AsIs (default, shading is unavailable), ColorOnly, None
; ForceTableLineBreaks = No (default) or Yes (make soft breaks hard)
When ForceTableLineBreaks=Yes, Mif2Go turns line wraps in table cells into line breaks in WinHelp, which often does a poor job of wrapping text in table cells.
If you have frames anchored inside a table cell that do not appear in the output, specify the following:
; TableGraphics = Standard (default, in cell), None, or Outside
; applies only to non-inline and non-runin frames anchored in cell
Sometimes the font used in WinHelp is larger than the original font used in FrameMaker. The size increase can make text too large for a table cell, causing it to run into the next table cell. Mif2Go has two settings available to fine tune the cell size when this happens. You can adjust the table column width as a percentage of the original width, or change the width by a number of twips (twentieths of a point):
; TblColWid* rescales all table column widths in the file, using:
; Pct as the percentage to apply to the original size, 0-32766
; Add as the twips to add to the scaled result; neg to subtract
You can use both in combination; for example, to add 20% + 360 twips:
To specify the full width of tables for which column widths are percentages:
; TblFullWidth is the size in twips used to compute column widths when
; widths are given as percentages, default of 9360 twips (6.5 inches).
By default, Mif2Go combines table cells that straddle columns into a single cell in WinHelp; however, you can override the default:
; MergeStradCells = Yes (default, combine col-straddling cells) or No
Note: For Word output, the default value of MergeStradCells is No (the opposite of the default for WinHelp); see §6.13 Converting tables to print RTF.
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