RE: [xep-support] A table with 2 columns that flow

Thanks for your reply Kevin. Not terribly clear was I?!

We produce a two-column document for our client, and in many places in the document we have tables show up in the regular flow. Text flows just fine from one column to another at the page level.
They now want one of the tables itself to have two columns, where text flows from the first column unto the second. I suppose you could think of it as a "mini-page" within a column of the main page.

Something like...

Page:
-------------------------------------------
| column one | column 2 |
| | |
| | |
| | Table: |
| | ----------------- |
| | | col1 | col2 ||
| | | | ||
| | | | ||
| | | | ||
| | | | ||
| | | | ||
| | | | ||
| | ----------------- |
| | |
| | |
| | |
| | |
| | |
| | |
| | |
-------------------------------------------

So text flows from the page's column 1 into column 2, and similarly they want text to flow from the _table's_ col1 into its col2.

Does that make better sense?

Thanks so much,

Paul
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From: owner-xep-support@renderx.com [mailto:owner-xep-support@renderx.com] On Behalf Of Kevin Brown
Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 1:17 PM
To: xep-support@renderx.com
Subject: RE: [xep-support] A table with 2 columns that flow

Paul:

I am confused at your requirement. Putting a table in a two-column flow will cause a table to flow into two columns ... down the page in column 1 and then continue at the top of column 2. What is it that you want that is different than this?  Given a two column table whose rows are like this "xxx xxx", this would format like this:

xxx xxx   xxx xxx
xxx xxx   xxx xxx
xxx xxx   xxx xxx
xxx xxx   xxx xxx
xxx xxx   xxx xxx
xxx xxx   xxx xxx

Kevin Brown
RenderX, Inc.

From: owner-xep-support@renderx.com [mailto:owner-xep-support@renderx.com] On Behalf Of Harvey, Paul
Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 8:14 AM
To: xep-support@renderx.com
Subject: [xep-support] A table with 2 columns that flow

I need to explore whether there's a way of putting multiple flows in the region-body of an XSL-FO document. 
I have a document that has two columns in the body, but I want to create a table within this flow that itself contains two columns that flow. 
Can this be done and if so how?

Thanks so much,

Paul

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Received on Tue Sep 1 13:02:33 2009