RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: [QUESTION] landscaped table orientation using XEP?

[David Cramer <dcramer@broadjump.com>]

The docbook xsls put a <fo:block-container reference-orientation="90"> around the table if the it has the attribute orient="land". I did some experiments with XEP 2.7 (which also requires absolute-position="fixed" on the block-container to use reference-orientation) and the evaluation version of 3.0, but never got good results. My understanding of block-container is that if the content of the table won't fit on one page, then it just flows off into never-never land rather than flowing to a new page. 

To do true landscaped tables requires Ken Holman's PSMI trick <http://www.cranesoftwrights.com/resources/psmi/index.htm>: He provides an xsl that rearranges your page sequences based on special markup you add to the fo file. I just took a stab at adding it to a docbook xsl customization. To use it, first process your doc containing <table orient="land"> with this xsl:
http://www.thingbag.net/docbook/tabletest/docbook-psmi.xsl
Feed the result of that transformation to Ken's psmi.xsl, and then process the result of that with your renderer (it should work with any renderer that can process fo files from the docbook xsls). 

There's one small problem I notice in my test doc: psmi.xsl faithfully preserves the characteristics of your original page sequence in creating the new ones. Since the docbook xsls have a region-after-first that lacks a page number, the first page after the landscaped table also lacks a page number (since it's the first page in the sequence). The easy workaround is to add a page number to the first page of the chapter.  

For some reason directory listings aren't working, so here are links to the test doc and pdf:
http://www.thingbag.net/docbook/tabletest/tabletest.pdf
http://www.thingbag.net/docbook/tabletest/tabletest.xml

David

-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel S. Haischt [mailto:sirabyss@gmx.net]
Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 6:42 AM
To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: DOCBOOK-APPS: [QUESTION] landscaped table orientation using
XEP?


hello,

i've read throught the mailing list archive and noticed,
displaying tables in landscape orientation might not be
supported, deppending on which transforming tool someone
is using.

so here comes my question ...

does the following configuration produce landscaped tables?

 - XEP FO processor
 - docbook-xsl v1.58.1

XEP is configured to output PDF files.

With best regards / Mit freundlichen Gruessen

Daniel S. Haischt IT Consulting
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