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schulle877
schulle877

Reputation: 131

asciidoc empty table rows

I like to have a table in asciidoc, where there is an empty row in it. The problem is, letting the row empty makes it very small automatically.

[cols="5,3,3"]
|===
|||
|===

I tried to fill the cells with spaces, + `s , line feeds, tabs. But there is no character I know, where the cell is empty on the paper and has the normal height.

What I mean is a css-like min-height, or a special character like   in html.

So how to force an empty table row to have the normal line height?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1941

Answers (2)

schulle877
schulle877

Reputation: 131

Found the solution by myself:

[cols="5a,3,3"]
|===
|{nbsp} +
 {nbsp} +||
|===

The ain the column definition marks this column as asciidoc-content, so that asciidoc commands will work. The {nbsp} + is the magic keyword for an empty space, which is not like the normal space. The normal space will be ignored, the {nbsp} is not ignored.

Hope that helps for other cases too.

Found it here: https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor/wiki/How-to-insert-sequential-blank-lines

Upvotes: 2

EhmKah a.k.a. Michael Krauße
EhmKah a.k.a. Michael Krauße

Reputation: 2967

Your problem seems difficult. I hope you have good reasons to add an empty row.

Maybe a small hack might help you for the moment :-)

[cols="5,3,3"] |=== a|image:sunset.jpg[""]|| |===

I just put an image which does not exists in the first column. Maybe a one pixel image might work as well. The a in front of |makes the asciidoctor interpreter to read it as asciidoctor.

Upvotes: 0

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