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RE: RE: Problem with table that spans multiple pages
- From: David Cramer <dcramer at broadjump dot com>
- To: Kraa de Simon <Simon dot de dot Kraa at icl dot nl>
- Cc: docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 13:46:59 -0600
- Subject: RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: RE: Problem with table that spans multiple pages
You might try this patch:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=514664&group_id=21935&at
id=373749
I'm not sure if it helps the border problem (Our tables are formatted
with only horozontal rules and no outside border.
David
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kraa de Simon [mailto:Simon.de.Kraa@icl.nl]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 1:28 PM
> To: 'Norman Walsh'
> Cc: 'docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org'
> Subject: DOCBOOK-APPS: RE: Problem with table that spans
> multiple pages
>
>
> This is what I got from RenderX:
>
> ---
> Exactly what I suspected. table-and-caption are kept-together.
> The parser first tries to keep the whole table together, it does
> not fit in a page, then to recover it stops processing of keep and
> breaks. Therefore the table looks ugly and the headers are broken
> not where they should.
>
> Besides that, by default border-before-width has
> conditionality="discard"
> thus no intermediate table borders, and your cells don't have
> border-before
> (top),
> only border-bottom and border-right.
>
> Specify border-top on the header -- you'll get the proper frames.
> ---
>
> Does this mean this is a problem with Docbook XSL?
>
> Any ideas on how I should proceed?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Simon.
>
> XML, FO and PDF examples can be found at:
>
> http://www.ansilion.com/docbook/doc.xml
> http://www.ansilion.com/docbook/doc.fo
> http://www.ansilion.com/docbook/doc.pdf
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Norman Walsh [mailto:ndw@nwalsh.com]
> Sent: woensdag 20 maart 2002 12:31
> To: Kraa de Simon
> Cc: docbook@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: Re: Problem with table that spans multiple pages
>
>
> [ Follow-ups to docbook-apps, please ]
>
> / Kraa de Simon <Simon.de.Kraa@icl.nl> was heard to say:
> | I'm having the following problems with a table that spans
> multiple pages
> in
> | a pdf document:
> |
> | - There is one blank page between table title and the table itself.
>
> I think this is a arguably a RenderX formatting problem. The table
> title specifies a "keep" with the table body, but the table is longer
> than a page so the formatter seems to think it's better to break
> between the table and the title than it is to break in the middle of
> the table.
>
> | - The bottom of the table isn't properly formatted (lines
> are sticking
> out).
> | - The header of the table is missing a line on the top.
>
> These are formatting choices (or bugs :-) made by the folks at
> RenderX, you'll have to ask them.
>
> Be seeing you,
> norm
>
> --
> Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> | The stone fell on the
> pitcher? Woe
> http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | to the pitcher. The pitcher fell
> Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | on the stone? Woe to the
> | pitcher.--Rabbinic Saying
>