Re: [docbook-apps] Keep a table from splitting across pages

["Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net>]

The keep-together PI was not working for informaltables in 1.69.1, but it
is fixed in CVS.  You should try downloading the latest snapshot release:

http://docbook.sourceforge.net/snapshots/

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
DocBook Consulting
bobs@sagehill.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Broschinsky" <mbroschi@utah.gov>
To: <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 2:13 PM
Subject: [docbook-apps] Keep a table from splitting across pages


I have an informaltable with one head row and three data rows, coded as the
example below:

  <informaltable>
    <tgroup cols="1">
      <thead>
<row>
  <entry>Examples:</entry>
</row>
      </thead>

      <tbody>
<row>
  <entry>
    <para>
                                       stuff...
     </para>
  </entry>
</row>

<row>
  <entry>
    <para>
      more stuff...
    </para>
  </entry>
</row>

<row>
  <entry>
    <para>
      even more stuff...
    </para>
  </entry>
</row>
      </tbody>
    </tgroup>
  </informaltable>

I *don't* want this table to split at a page end; I would rather have the
entire table carry over to the next page.

I note from Bob Stayton's book that "[t]he dbfo keep-together processing
instruction can be used with tables, examples, figures, and equations (and
their informal versions too). By default, each of those elements is
automatically kept together, by means of the following attribute in the
formal.object.properties attribute-set in fo/param.xsl...." (see
http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/PageBreaking.html)

I read this to mean that by default tables don't break. Am I reading this
wrong? (Probably.)

In any event, further down that page, I read that I can use a dbfo
processing instruction to either make the break occur automatically, or
turn it always on. So I coded my informaltable like this:

  <informaltable>
  <?dbfo keep-together="always" ?>
    <tgroup cols="1">
      <thead>
<row>
  <entry>Examples:</entry>
</row>
      </thead>

      <tbody>
<row>
  <entry>
    <para>
                                       stuff...
     </para>
  </entry>
</row>

<row>
  <entry>
    <para>
      more stuff...
    </para>
  </entry>
</row>

<row>
  <entry>
    <para>
      even more stuff...
    </para>
  </entry>
</row>
      </tbody>
    </tgroup>
  </informaltable>

I have added the dbfo processing instruction immediately below the open tag
of the informaltable element. But the table still splits.

I am using xsltproc to create the fo file with the following command lines:

xsltproc --output manual.rulewriter.xml --stringparam profile.userlevel
"rulewriter" C:/xml/style/docbook-xsl-1.69.1/profiling/profile.xsl
manual.dcbk

xsltproc --output manual.rulewriter.fo --stringparam xep.extensions 1
./style/manual-pdf.xsl manual.rulewriter.xml

Then I use XEP 4.5 to create the PDF output with the following command
line:

C:\Programs\RenderX\XEP\xep.bat -fo manual.rulewriter.fo -pdf
manual.rulewriter.pdf

What (probably painfully obvious thing) have I missed?

Thanks,

Mike


----------------------------

Mike Broschinsky
Administrative Code Editor
Utah State Division of Administrative Rules
801-538-3003
mbroschi@utah.gov


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