Re: [docbook-apps] Landscape tables across multiple pages

["Paul Suckling" <paul.suckling@gmail.com>]

Hi Bob.

I am not an XSL expert, let alone a DocBook XSL expert, and the
customisation required to get PSMI to work for DocBook articles with
nested sections looks quite involved, so I am going to investigate the
Antenna House processor. Otherwise I'll just have to fall back to
splitting such tables manually.

Thank you for your reply.

Paul

2008/11/5 Bob Stayton <bobs@sagehill.net>:
> Hi,
> The easiest way is to use the Antenna House processor and put the table
> inside an fo:block-container with its reference-orientation="90".  Antenna
> House has implemented an extension to the standard to flow such
> block-containers onto multiple pages.  In fact, the current DocBook
> stylesheets do that already, in the template named 'table.container' in
> fo/table.xsl.  So just setting orient="land" on a table should do it.
>
> If AH is not feasible, then PSMI is the only way I know to do it.  It is not
> implemented in the DocBook stylesheets, so you'll have to implement it
> yourself.  Because PSMI breaks a flow into multiple page sequences, it does
> require closing all open fo elements in the flow before the table.  That
> would require additional customization because of the use of fo:block
> nesting around sections.  You would need to customize the template with
> match="section" in fo/sections.xsl, removing the section block wrapper. When
> you do that, however, you lose the ability to place attributes on the
> container block, those attributes coming from section.level1.properties et
> al.
>
> Bob Stayton
> Sagehill Enterprises
> bobs@sagehill.net
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Suckling" <paul.suckling@gmail.com>
> To: <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 6:42 AM
> Subject: [docbook-apps] Landscape tables across multiple pages
>
>
>> I have got some long wide tables in my DocBook article. I would like
>> to either place them on a series of landscape pages, or keep them on a
>> portrait page but have them rotated. I found a solution which does the
>> latter but not adequately: The tables don't split across multiple
>> pages.
>>
>> I have done a search of the archives and came across this thread,
>> http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-apps/200301/msg00144.html,
>> which suggests that the best way to do it is to use PSMI
>> (http://www.cranesoftwrights.com/resources/psmi/index.htm). However,
>> this only appears to work for tables that are direct children of
>> chapters and appendices. My DocBook is an article, and so the tables
>> are children of sections.
>>
>> That thread appeared in 2004. Have things moved on from there now? Can
>> anyone advise me what the best way of achieving landscape tables is
>> with DocBook today?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Paul
>>
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