Re: [docbook-apps] Text overflow in table cells

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

Hi,
I don't see any other way to wrap a cell's content in an fo:block-container 
except to customize the "entry" template.

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Antti Karanta" <antti.karanta@napa.fi>
To: <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 11:21 PM
Subject: [docbook-apps] Text overflow in table cells


>
>
>                            Hi!
>
>   If a table cell (in pdf) has a text token longer than fits in the said 
> cell, I'd like to truncate the content instead of overflowing it over the 
> contents of the next cell as seems to be the default.
>
>
>   Here's a (somewhat) minimal sample:
>
> <article>
> <title>Overflow sample</title>
> <informaltable frame="none" colsep="0" rowsep="0">
> <tgroup cols="10">
> <colspec colname="1" align="left"/>
> <colspec colname="2" align="left"/>
> <colspec colname="3" align="left"/>
> <colspec colname="4" align="left"/>
> <colspec colname="5" align="right"/>
> <colspec colname="6" align="right"/>
> <colspec colname="7" align="right"/>
> <colspec colname="8" align="right"/>
> <colspec colname="9" align="left"/>
> <colspec colname="10" align="right"/>
> <tbody>
> <row>
> <entry>PARTIALSUBDRAUGHT/TEST</entry>
> <entry>INTACT</entry>
> <entry>EQ</entry>
> <entry>PS</entry>
> <entry>7.040</entry>
> <entry>0.000</entry>
> <entry>0.0</entry>
> <entry>-</entry>
> <entry>-</entry>
> <entry>1.01</entry>
> </row>
> </tbody>
> </tgroup>
> </informaltable>
> </article>
>
>
>   The token "PARTIALSUBDRAUGHT" overflows into the next cell on the top of 
> the text there - this looks messy. I know truncating the string and thus 
> losing content is not a good thing either, but due to user demand I'd like 
> to be able to do that.
>   In this particular case the problem could be solved by resizing the 
> columns appropriately, but all the cases are not that simple.
>
>   Using hyphenation is not (always) an option either since some of the 
> texts (like the one above) are identifiers and no extra "-" should be 
> inserted.
>
>   Looking at documentation for <entry> (docbook table cell) I found 
> nothing suitable. Did I miss something?
>
>
>
>   I found this in fop faq: 
> http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/faq.html#cells-overflow
>
>   Trying this out, I manually edited the xsl-fo and achieved what I 
> wanted. I.e. I wrapped the <fo:block> inside <fo:table-cell> inside a 
> <fo:block-container> like this:
>
>   <fo:table-cell padding-left="2pt" padding-right="2pt" padding-top="2pt" 
> padding-bottom="2pt" text-align="left">
>       <fo:block-container overflow="hidden">
>          <fo:block>PARTIALSUBDRAUGHT/TEST</fo:block>
>        </fo:block-container>
>   </fo:table-cell>
>
>   Now comes the problem: I went through docbook-xsl customization options 
> for table cells and found table.cell.properties and 
> table.cell.block.properties, but they don't help me as it's not sufficient 
> to set an attribute value.
>   I hope I'm wrong, but it seems that the only way to achieve what I want 
> is to hack "entry" template in fo/table.xsl (around lines 1022-1038). 
> Also, as this behavior should be optinal, I should use role or style 
> attribute something like role="truncate-overflow".
>
>
>   Any better ideas?
>
>
>
>
>   Environment:
>         win xp sp 2
> docbook xsl 1.74.0
>         saxon 9.1.0.3
> java 1.6.0_11
> fop 0.95
> adobe reader 9.0.0
>
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>
>          ::Antti::
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