Re: [docbook] continued label for long tables

[David Cramer <david@thingbag.net>]

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Hi Paul,
Bob Stayton's book provides a customization to add "Continued" labels
if  you're using XEP as your fo renderer:

http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/TableTemplateCust.html#TableContinuedLabel

David

On 01/25/2012 07:24 AM, Paul Tremblay wrote:
> I have a question about the XSL stylesheets in docbook. For a long 
> table, it is desirable to have the title repeated on every page,
> with the word "continued" after the first occurrence. Most FO
> processors don't implement the latest standards of FO, so we need
> some work around. I have used two in the past:
> 
> 1. Include the label in a running header or footer.
> 
> 2. Break the table into two table. Process the first table as
> normal. For the second table, create a header with title and the
> continued label.
> 
> (1)  requires that you create your own page sequences and call on
> them. Doing so is not difficult. The difficult part comes in
> calling the page sequences in the right order. For example, if you
> have a long table in the middle of a chapter, you would have to
> call the page sequence template, apply all the templates for the
> text before the long table, call the long table sequence, then call
> on the original sequence for the rest of the content. While this
> solution is possible, it does not lend itself to reuse, because you
> would have to do a lot of re-writing each time.
> 
> (2) requires that you know how much of your table fits on one page 
> before you write the rest of it. Though you cannot know the exact
> inches your text will take, you can make an educated guess and
> readjust the table after a few trial runs. Though (2) is far from
> perfect, at seems to provide less re-writing than (1) and lends
> itself for reuse.
> 
> Any thoughts or hints before I launch into implementing (2)?
> 
> Paul

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