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

Paul:

Not with the current XEP but there is at least one workaround I can think
of.

Is the small table always on one and only one page or does it ever break
across pages?

If it is only on one page I would format ONLY this table (or all the tables
like this table) into a separate XEP Intermediate Format document as a first
pass and then with a little custom code, use those little XEP Intermediate
Format files as images in the complete run of the document.

This method was just discussed in this article also (see method (2)):

http://services.renderx.com/lists/xep-support/6046.html

We would be happy to discuss with you offline to help you if the limitations
of this method (the entire small table is always on a single page) works for
you.

Kevin Brown
RenderX, Inc.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-xep-support@renderx.com [mailto:owner-xep-support@renderx.com]
On Behalf Of Harvey, Paul
Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 12:43 PM
To: xep-support@renderx.com
Subject: 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
________________________________________
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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