Re: [docbook-apps] PDF Table Row processing

[vhikida@inreach.com]

I'm very new to XSL-FO and FOP and I had this problem also. I found a work
around on google but I don't remember where. However, I've used it in my
own XSL file and it did work. My understanding is that keep-together=all
works for table cells in FOP. In my case I needed to keep together a table
which is usually 3 or 4 lines of parole information together on a report.
I used the following code.

<fo:table table-layout="fixed" width="100%">
    <fo:table-column column-width="proportional-column-width(1)"/>
    <fo:table-body>
    <fo:table-row keep-together="always">
    <fo:table-cell>
    <fo:block>
       <xsl:apply-templates select="probations-paroles"/>
    </fo:block>
    </fo:table-cell>
    </fo:table-row>
    </fo:table-body>
</fo:table>

It should be noted that probations-paroles defines a list of paroles and
probations. Somewhat ugly but this works.

Vincent


> FOP's implementation of the "keep" mechanism is incomplete
> in its current version.  I tried putting keep-together properties on
> both table-row and table-cells in the FO output, and they
> had no effect with FOP.
>
> The only property that worked was break-before="page" on the
> fo:table-row element.  But you don't want that on every row, of course.
> You could customize the template for table rows to look for a
> processing instruction that you put in your row when you want to
> force a manual break.  It's a very ugly solution, and a maintenance
> headache if the file changes.
>
> Bob Stayton
> Sagehill Enterprises
> bobs@sagehill.net
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Janeene Webb" <webdesign@dawnmist.net>
> To: <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 7:36 PM
> Subject: [docbook-apps] PDF Table Row processing
>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Am wondering if there is any way to specify that a table is *not* to
>> split
> a
>> row over a page-break when being converted into a PDF file? I've got a
>> document which is using tables for a long list of reports within a
> program,
>> their titles, shortcut codes, descriptions, etc. Each "row" in the table
>> would vary between 3 and 10 lines high. As such, I'm finding that
> sometimes
>> at the bottom of the page I'd get the first line of a row on that page
>> and
>> the other 5 lines (for a 6 line row) on the next - which does dreadful
> things
>> to the clarity of the data, since the report title can be split in half,
> not
>> to mention the rest!
>>
>> Am using the xsl 1.62.4 stylesheets and saxon + fop 0.20.5 for the
> processing.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Janeene Webb.
>>
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