Building table formatting tools

  • Authors:
  • Mihai Bilauca;Patrick Healy

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland;University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 11th ACM symposium on Document engineering
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

In this paper we present an overview of the challenges to overcome when developing table authoring tools, including a review of logical table models, typographical issues and automated table layout optimization. We present a Table Drawing Tool prototype which implements an automated solution for the table layout optimization problem for tables with spanning cells using a mathematical modelling method. We report on the performance improvements of this new optimization method compared to previous solutions