Re: [xep-support] Long Tables and Titles

Ken,

Thanks for the reply. Apparently I am confused about the function of
keep. I understood that keep would force the first block to appear on
the same page with the subsequent block. Since the long table needs to
break across several pages, anyway, I assumed the keep would push the
title to the next page so that it appeared immediately before the table
block and then break the table across the page where ever it need to.

I don't believe I'll be able to use either of the other two options
(table-caption or table-header) as the document structure has been set.

Any other thoughts?

Thanks again.

Craig

G. Ken Holman wrote:
> At 2009-06-22 10:28 -0500, Craig S. Booher wrote:
>> Whenever a table is longer than one printed page, the table title
>> appears at the top of an initial page but the table contents don't
>> display until the beginning of the subsequent page.
>
> Yes, that is the behaviour I would expect because you've used
> keep-with-next.
>
>> I've used:
>>
>> <xsl:template match="table">
>> <fo:block margin="12pt" id="{generate-id(.)}" >
>> <xsl:if test="title">
>> <fo:block keep-with-next.within-page="always">
>> other stuff
>> </fo:block>
>> </xsl:if>
>> <fo:block keep-with-previous.within-page="always" widows="3"
>> orphans="3">
>> <fo:table width="100%" keep-together.within-column="always"
>> widows="3" orphans="3">
>> other stuff
>> </fo:table>
>> </fo:block>
>> </fo:block>
>> </xsl:template>
>>
>> as well as other variations on the keep-with-next/previous property.
>
> If there is no room for everything, it is unclear to me why you would
> expect everything to fit.
>
>> Tables shorter than one page have correct placement of title and
>> table contents (i.e., no page breaks after the title).
>>
>> Can anyone shed some light on the source of my problem
>
> When a keep condition cannot be met, the keep is broken. You have two
> keeps: the keep of the title with the table and the keep of the table
> together. The first one, the keep of the title with the table breaks,
> so the title is on one page and the table goes to the next. Then the
> table with the keep doesn't fit and so that keep is broken. But the
> formatter has already moved on to the next page.
>
>> and recommend a solution?
>
> Have you considered using <table-caption> for your title?
>
> Have you considered using <table-header> for your title?
>
> Then in both cases you are only dealing with keep conditions for the
> table construct itself and not a preceding block.
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> . . . . . . . . . Ken
>
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