Under Community Review

Method for adjusting the background opacity for dotted dashed tabular rules

I'm making request to control the background opacity of the dotted and dashed tabular rules in order to handle client styles that use these rule types with shaded cells (fmcolor, fpat, fcell). 

The attached image shows the current functionality when dot11 is used with fmcolor and fpat. The dots are drawn correctly, however the space between each dot is white.

To track down where this is coming from, I've tried things like:

  • changing the background color of the block to ensure that this isn't the block color;
  • adjusted the row gutters
  • tried different macros (ftype, fprio,) and arguments to fcell. 

The result was always the same, the space between each dot remained white. 

Screenshot showing a list of award types with dotted and dashed lines separating them. The background of the list is white, and the space between the dots and dashes is also white, not matching the green shaded cells.

If you would like to see this effect on your system - the attached .txt document contains only delivered macros and can be pasted into DIV_1-overview in the following location:

first > CLS_xyvision > GRP_comp > JOB_xybase2

Fullscreen 2022-08-25_DotDashTableRuleOpacity.txt Download 
{text}<begtab;sys><setstylh;all;all;ff;0><setstyle;all;all;ff;0><setnc;9><hdrstyle;1><controw;1><setgut;col;0;8q><setgut;row;0;8q><setstylh;all;all;sz;8q><setstyle;all;all;sz;8q><setwid;1;6p><setwid;-2;0n><setstylh;all;all;fv;1><setstylh;all;all;vstyle;bot><setstyle;all;-2;align;1><setstyle;all;-2;hstyle;c><setstylh;all;-2;jstyle;rc><setbrul;allbox;0q><setstylh;all;all;xvrule><setstyle;all;all;xvrule><setrul;row;0;1q;green;;;;;dot12> 
<Tr>Category &amp; Name<qa> 
of the Shareholder
<Tc>No. of<qa> 
Shareholders
<Tc>No. of<qa> 
<qa>equity<qa> 
Shares held
<Tc>Total No.<qa> 
of Shares<qa> 
Held
<Tc>Shareholding<qa> 
\% calculated<qa> 
as a \% of<qa> 
(A+B+C)
<Tc;;2>Equity shares<qa> 
with voting<qa> 
rights<qa>
Total as a<qa> 
\% of<qa> 
(A+B+C)
<Tc>No. of Shares<qa> 
Underlying<qa> 
Outstanding<qa> 
convertible<qa> 
securities<qa> 
<Tc>Shareholding<qa> 
as a \%<qa> 
of diluted<qa> 
share capital)
<Tc>Number of<qa> 
equity shares<qa> 
held<qa> 
<Tr>(B1) Institutions
<Tc>
<Tc>
<Tc>
<Tc>
<Tc>
<Tc>
<Tc>
<Tc>
<Tc>
<Tr><chgrow;fmcolor;red><chgrow;fpat;100>Mutual Funds 
<Tc>0
<Tc>00,000,000
<Tc>00,000,000
<Tc>0
<Tc>00,000,000
<Tc>0
<Tc>0
<Tc>0
<Tc>00,000,000
<Tr><chgrow;fmcolor;red><chgrow;fpat;100>Capital Funds 
<Tc>0
<Tc>0
<Tc>
<Tc>0
<Tc>
<Tc>0
<Tc>
<Tc>0
<Tc>
<Tr><chgrow;fmcolor;red><chgrow;fpat;100>Alternate Funds 
<Tc>0
<Tc>0
<Tc>
<Tc>0
<Tc>
<Tc>0
<Tc>
<Tc>0
<Tc>
<Tr><chgrow;fmcolor;red><chgrow;fpat;100>Venture Investors 
<Tc>0
<Tc>0
<Tc>
<Tc>0
<Tc>
<Tc>0
<Tc>
<Tc>0
<Tc>
<Tr><chgrow;fmcolor;red><chgrow;fpat;100>Portfolio Investors 
<Tc>0
<Tc>000,000,000
<Tc>000,000,000
<Tc>0
<Tc>000,000,000
<Tc>0
<Tc>0
<Tc>0
<Tc>000,000,000
<Tr><chgrow;fmcolor;red><chgrow;fpat;100>Pooled Fund 
<Tc>0
<Tc>0,000,000
<Tc>0,000,000
<Tc>0
<Tc>0,000,000
<Tc>0
<Tc>0
<Tc>0
<Tc>0,000,000<endtab>

The idea / ask is to control the opacity of the space between the dot / dash in the segmented table rule styles. 

Thomas Mangan