RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: RE: Problem with table that spans multiple pages

[David Cramer <dcramer at broadjump dot com>]

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
> 
> -- 
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>