Re: [xep-support] Long Tables and Titles

You could wrap the title and table in another fo:block that has the
keep-together.within-page property, and remove the other keeps.

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net

----- Original Message -----
From: "Craig S. Booher" <CraigSBooher@athenet.net>
To: <xep-support@renderx.com>
Sent: Monday, June 22, 2009 3:11 PM
Subject: 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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