Hi Paul,
I recently had the very same requirement for a client. Rotating the
page 90 degrees is certainly not a desirable solution.
The problem was solved by pre-processing the DocBook document to
flatten the section structure, and then group together the portrait
and landscape parts (XSLT2 is excellent for this purpose!). Those
different parts are then rendered as sequential fo:page-sequences.
Let me know if you would like further information on this approach.
Cheers,
Steve Ball
On 06/11/2008, at 11:10 PM, Paul Suckling wrote:
Hi Bob.
I am not an XSL expert, let alone a DocBook XSL expert, and the
customisation required to get PSMI to work for DocBook articles with
nested sections looks quite involved, so I am going to investigate the
Antenna House processor. Otherwise I'll just have to fall back to
splitting such tables manually.
Thank you for your reply.
Paul
2008/11/5 Bob Stayton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Hi,
The easiest way is to use the Antenna House processor and put the
table
inside an fo:block-container with its reference-orientation="90".
Antenna
House has implemented an extension to the standard to flow such
block-containers onto multiple pages. In fact, the current DocBook
stylesheets do that already, in the template named
'table.container' in
fo/table.xsl. So just setting orient="land" on a table should do it.
If AH is not feasible, then PSMI is the only way I know to do it.
It is not
implemented in the DocBook stylesheets, so you'll have to implement
it
yourself. Because PSMI breaks a flow into multiple page sequences,
it does
require closing all open fo elements in the flow before the table.
That
would require additional customization because of the use of fo:block
nesting around sections. You would need to customize the template
with
match="section" in fo/sections.xsl, removing the section block
wrapper. When
you do that, however, you lose the ability to place attributes on the
container block, those attributes coming from
section.level1.properties et
al.
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
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Subject: [docbook-apps] Landscape tables across multiple pages
I have got some long wide tables in my DocBook article. I would like
to either place them on a series of landscape pages, or keep them
on a
portrait page but have them rotated. I found a solution which does
the
latter but not adequately: The tables don't split across multiple
pages.
I have done a search of the archives and came across this thread,
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-apps/200301/msg00144.html
,
which suggests that the best way to do it is to use PSMI
(http://www.cranesoftwrights.com/resources/psmi/index.htm). However,
this only appears to work for tables that are direct children of
chapters and appendices. My DocBook is an article, and so the tables
are children of sections.
That thread appeared in 2004. Have things moved on from there now?
Can
anyone advise me what the best way of achieving landscape tables is
with DocBook today?
Thanks,
Paul
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