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Re: [QUESTION] landscaped table orientation using XEP?
- From: David Tolpin <dvd at renderx dot com>
- To: docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 11:36:13 +0400 (AMT)
- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: [QUESTION] landscaped table orientation using XEP?
>
> The docbook xsls put a <fo:block-container reference-orientation="90"> around
> the table if the it has the attribute orient="land". I did some experiments
> with XEP 2.7 (which also requires absolute-position="fixed" on the
> block-container to use reference-orientation) and the evaluation version of
> 3.0, but never got good results. My understanding of block-container is that
> if the content of the table won't fit on one page, then it just flows off
> into never-never land rather than flowing to a new page.
Yes, we tried to find a consistent implementation of multipage rotated containers
but it doesn't turn out to be useful. If a block-container is rotated or if
both dimensions are specified then it generates one area.
The proper way to markup landscape tables is to use landscape-oriented (or rotated)
pages. Exactly what Ken Holman's stylesheet does. <http://www.cranesoftwrights.com/resources/psmi/index.htm>
David Tolpin
RenderX