Date: Fri Feb 21 2014 - 05:33:18 PST
Sorry, forgot the attached screenshots.
David
On 2/21/14 8:32 AM, David Clunie wrote:
> Hi
>
> In PDF table cells from the DocBook FO stylesheets rendered with xep,
> if the words in a table cell spread cross several lines, then they
> are not kept together from the perspective of selection or searching
> in PDF viewers.
>
> I have not been able to improve this behavior using any of the FO
> "keep-together" options (e.g., applied in "table.cell.block.properties"
> template customizations). I use "keep-together.within-column"
> successfully to prevent cells breaking across pages, but that does
> not affect the described problem.
>
> And using "keep-together.within-line" doesn't solve the problem either
> (phrases still get split up), and also causes some tables to over flow
> the page margins anyway and is hence unusable for this.
>
> In short, I am in need of some way of having the content wrap to fit
> within the page (obviously) but remain together from the PDF encoding
> perspective such that phrases are searchable, which is critical for
> our use case (we have a standard with many thousands of pages and
> need to be able to search for phrases that are (long) names of data
> elements that are present in tables and wrapped to fit on a page
> (e.g., as in the screen shots, "Shared Functional Groups Sequence").
>
> Since Word can do it, I know PDF can be encoded this way; the question
> is how to get xep to do it.
>
> It isn't split in the FO (the text is contained in one <fo:block/>).
>
> The attached screen shots show selection of a phrase spanning lines
> wrapped within a cell highlighted when displayed using Acrobat, with
> "good" output from Word and "bad" output from XEP.
>
> The DocBook fragment for this row is:
>
> <tr valign="top">
> <td align="left" colspan="1" rowspan="1">
> <para>Shared Functional Groups Sequence</para>
> </td>
> <td align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1">
> <para>(5200,9229)</para>
> </td>
> <td align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1">
> <para>1</para>
> </td>
> <td align="left" colspan="1" rowspan="1">
> <para>Sequence that contains the Functional Group Macros that are
> shared for all frames in this SOP Instance and Concatenation.</para>
> <note>
> <para>The contents of this sequence are the same in all SOP
> Instances that comprise a Concatenation.</para>
> </note>
> <para>Only a single Item shall be included in this sequence.</para>
> <para>See <xref linkend="sect_C.7.6.16.1.1" xrefstyle="select:
> label"/> for further explanation.</para>
> </td>
> </tr>
>
> The customization used is:
>
> <xsl:template name="table.cell.block.properties">
> <xsl:attribute name="keep-together.within-column">always</xsl:attribute>
> <xsl:choose>
> <xsl:when test="ancestor::d:thead or ancestor::d:tfoot">
> <xsl:attribute name="font-weight">bold</xsl:attribute>
> </xsl:when>
> <!-- Make row headers bold too -->
> <xsl:when test="ancestor::d:tbody and
> (ancestor::d:table[@rowheader = 'firstcol'] or
> ancestor::d:informaltable[@rowheader = 'firstcol'])
> and
>
> ancestor-or-self::d:entry[1][count(preceding-sibling::d:entry) = 0]">
> <xsl:attribute name="font-weight">bold</xsl:attribute>
> </xsl:when>
> </xsl:choose>
> </xsl:template>
>
> and the extract of the FO produced by the DocBook FO stylesheets is:
>
> <fo:table-row>
> <fo:table-cell padding-start="2pt" padding-end="2pt"
> padding-top="2pt" padding-bottom="2pt" text-align="left"
> display-align="before" border-start-style="none" border-top-style="none"
> border-bottom-style="solid" border-bottom-width="0.5pt"
> border-bottom-color="black" border-end-style="solid"
> border-end-width="0.5pt" border-end-color="black"><fo:block
> keep-together.within-column="always">
> <fo:block space-before.optimum="1em"
> space-before.minimum="0.8em" space-before.maximum="1.2em">Shared
> Functional Groups Sequence</fo:block>
> </fo:block></fo:table-cell>
> <fo:table-cell padding-start="2pt" padding-end="2pt"
> padding-top="2pt" padding-bottom="2pt" text-align="center"
> display-align="before" border-start-style="none" border-top-style="none"
> border-bottom-style="solid" border-bottom-width="0.5pt"
> border-bottom-color="black" border-end-style="solid"
> border-end-width="0.5pt" border-end-color="black"><fo:block
> keep-together.within-column="always">
> <fo:block space-before.optimum="1em"
> space-before.minimum="0.8em"
> space-before.maximum="1.2em">(5200,9229)</fo:block>
> </fo:block></fo:table-cell>
> <fo:table-cell padding-start="2pt" padding-end="2pt"
> padding-top="2pt" padding-bottom="2pt" text-align="center"
> display-align="before" border-start-style="none" border-top-style="none"
> border-bottom-style="solid" border-bottom-width="0.5pt"
> border-bottom-color="black" border-end-style="solid"
> border-end-width="0.5pt" border-end-color="black"><fo:block
> keep-together.within-column="always">
> <fo:block space-before.optimum="1em"
> space-before.minimum="0.8em" space-before.maximum="1.2em">1</fo:block>
> </fo:block></fo:table-cell>
> <fo:table-cell padding-start="2pt" padding-end="2pt"
> padding-top="2pt" padding-bottom="2pt" text-align="left"
> display-align="before" border-start-style="none" border-top-style="none"
> border-bottom-style="solid" border-bottom-width="0.5pt"
> border-bottom-color="black"><fo:block keep-together.within-column="always">
> <fo:block space-before.optimum="1em"
> space-before.minimum="0.8em" space-before.maximum="1.2em">Sequence that
> contains the Functional Group Macros that are shared for all frames in
> this SOP Instance and Concatenation.</fo:block>
> <fo:block id="idp140215214853168"
> space-before.minimum="0.8em" space-before.optimum="1em"
> space-before.maximum="1.2em" margin-left="0.25in"
> margin-right="0.25in"><fo:block keep-with-next.within-column="always"
> font-size="9pt" font-weight="bold"
> hyphenate="false">Note</fo:block><fo:block><fo:block
> space-before.optimum="1em" space-before.minimum="0.8em"
> space-before.maximum="1.2em">The contents of this sequence are the same
> in all SOP Instances that comprise a
> Concatenation.</fo:block></fo:block></fo:block>
> <fo:block space-before.optimum="1em"
> space-before.minimum="0.8em" space-before.maximum="1.2em">Only a single
> Item shall be included in this sequence.</fo:block>
> <fo:block space-before.optimum="1em"
> space-before.minimum="0.8em" space-before.maximum="1.2em">See
> <fo:basic-link
> internal-destination="sect_C.7.6.16.1.1"><fo:inline>Section
> C.7.6.16.1.1</fo:inline></fo:basic-link> for further
> explanation.</fo:block>
> </fo:block></fo:table-cell>
> </fo:table-row>
>
> Thanks ... David
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