Re: [docbook-apps] table vertical spans and page breaks

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

Hi,
It isn't necessary to customize the template with match="entry" to add the 
keep-together properties, as there is a utility template named 
"table.cell.properties" that can accomplish that.  This is a template, not 
an attribute-set, and is described in this section of my book:

http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/PrintTableStyles.html#table.cell.properties

Just add this to the customized template:

<xsl:attribute name="keep-together.within-column">always</xsl:attribute>

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Vincent Hennebert" <vhennebert@gmail.com>
To: <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 3:28 AM
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] table vertical spans and page breaks


> Hi,
>
> Marcel Tromp wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am using fop 0.95. I am using code similar to this example:
>>
>> I've tried using this dbfo at different location as well (row, start of 
>> table) and I don't see any difference: fop breaks the table in the middle 
>> of a cell that straddles multiple rows.
>>
>>       <tbody>
>>         <row>
>>           <entry>
>>             <para>foo</para>
>>           </entry>
>>           <entry>
>>             <para>foo</para>
>>           </entry>
>>           <entry morerows="19">
>>             <?dbfo keep-together="always"?>
>>             <para></para>
>>           </entry>
>
> This processing instruction only applies to formal object (table,
> example, figure, equation), not to other elements [1].
> [1] 
> http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/doc/pi/dbfo_keep-together.html
>
> You will have to customize the template matching <entry> and add
> a keep-together.within-column="always" to the produced fo:table-cell
> element. As to how to do that...
>
>
>> What I am trying to do is to have a long (500 row) narrow, sorted table 
>> be printed three columns per page. I want to use the straddled cell to 
>> control page breaks:
>>
>> page 1:
>> 1 6 11
>> 2 7 12
>> 3 8 13
>> 4 9 14
>> 5 10 15
>>
>> page 2:
>> 16 21 26
>> 17 22 27
>> 18 23 28
>> 19 24 29
>> 20 25 30
>>
>> page 3:
>> etc.
>
> I’m not sure this is the best way to achieve that. The source DocBook
> file should remain output-agnostic; by adding a row-spanning entry
> element you’re somehow abusing its semantics.
> A more proper way would be to customize the XSLT stylesheets so as to
> put a keep-together.within-column plus keep-with-next.within-column on
> every row, except every n-th row. Of course that requires some XSLT
> knowledge.
>
>
> HTH,
> Vincent
>
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