OK. I have some sort of progress. I found an answer on mail-archive.com (*) which explains how the keep-together on the fo:table block is unable to split the table over several pages using keep-together.within-column=auto because the surrounding fo:block has keep-together.within-column=always.
I've got my document to display properly by editing the xsl-fo. This is, of course, a solution in the xsl-fo domain, and I want to get a fix at the DocBook level. I've used <?dbfo keep-together="auto" ?> within my DocBook <table> to get the innermost of these set correctly, but I need the parent block to somehow get the attribute changed. Can I do this from the DocBook level ? I don't want to need to patch the fo to get the formatting to work. Do I need to put another <?dbfo keep-together="auto" ?> to get the parent fo:block's attribute fixed ? If so, where should this be done ? Is there something else I need to change ? Appreciatively, Richard. (*) http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg07904 > -----Original Message----- > From: Kerry, Richard > Sent: 18 December 2007 11:16 > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [docbook-apps] Fop unable to render tables ? > (without intervention ?) > > > I've tried setting fop1.extensions but I don't think it does anything > for me regarding tables. > It generates a bookmark-tree and gives a region the name "blank-body". > > One problem I'd had was that I'd missed the <colspec> elements within > the <tgroup>. Having added those I'm no longer getting the many > warnings about table-layout. > > However, I am still gettting Fop attempting to place each table on one > page only, and I get the warnings shown below for the two long tables. > I did get these when I sent my earlier message on this subject but > thought the other messages, with their many repetitions, were more > important, so I neglected to include them in my posting. I think > actually these are the most significant in that they are telling me > directly that it has placed the long tables on single pages. There's > nothing I can see in DocBook, or Chapter 30 of Rob Stayton's book, to > indicate that I need to tell it to split a table over multiple pages - > indeed I'd have thought it would default to doing so. And I > can't find > any attributes or anything that looks like it will enable splitting > tables across pages. > > > > These are the two warning messages that tell me directly that > there are > tables on pages 3 and 6 that can't be fitted onto the single page. > > 17-Dec-2007 13:34:20 org.apache.fop.layoutmgr.PageBreaker$1 > notifyOverflow > WARNING: Content of the region-body on page 6 overflows the available > area in block-progression dimension. (fo:page-sequence, location: > 237/61) > 17-Dec-2007 13:34:20 org.apache.fop.layoutmgr.PageBreaker$1 > notifyOverflow > WARNING: Content of the region-body on page 3 overflows the available > area in block-progression dimension. (fo:page-sequence, location: > 237/61) > > > Uncertainly, > Richard. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Andrew McFarland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: 17 December 2007 15:49 > > To: Kerry, Richard > > Cc: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Fop unable to render tables ? > > (without intervention ?) > > > > On 17/12/2007, Kerry, Richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > <snip/> > > > Fop is version 0.94, which I think is the latest. > > <snip/> > > > > Try setting fop1.extensions > > > > http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/doc/fo/fop1 > > .extensions.html > > > > Also read chapter 30 of the Sagehill book, > > http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/Tables.html > > > > And good luck. Tables drive me nuts :-) > > > > Andrew > > -- > > We can't change the past, but each of us, by challenging > prejudice and > > intolerance, can help to change the future. > > - Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Address at Holocaust Memorial Day, > Westminster > > Hall, London, 27th January 2005 > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
