Re: [xep-support] Long Tables and Titles

Thanks, Bob. That solved my issue. Titles are now always contiguous
with table contents - although occasionally in the middle pages of a
long table, the bottom border is missing. In other words, instead of

* *
* *
***********************

I have,

* *
* *
* *

Is there a fix for this problem?

Thanks again,

Craig

Bob Stayton wrote:
> 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
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>
> ----- 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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