I'm using FOP. I've seen the online version on how to make this work with
XEP.

Paul

On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 8:36 AM, David Cramer <[email protected]> wrote:

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> Hi Paul,
> Bob Stayton's book provides a customization to add "Continued" labels
> if  you're using XEP as your fo renderer:
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> http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/TableTemplateCust.html#TableContinuedLabel
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> David
>
> On 01/25/2012 07:24 AM, Paul Tremblay wrote:
> > I have a question about the XSL stylesheets in docbook. For a long
> > table, it is desirable to have the title repeated on every page,
> > with the word "continued" after the first occurrence. Most FO
> > processors don't implement the latest standards of FO, so we need
> > some work around. I have used two in the past:
> >
> > 1. Include the label in a running header or footer.
> >
> > 2. Break the table into two table. Process the first table as
> > normal. For the second table, create a header with title and the
> > continued label.
> >
> > (1)  requires that you create your own page sequences and call on
> > them. Doing so is not difficult. The difficult part comes in
> > calling the page sequences in the right order. For example, if you
> > have a long table in the middle of a chapter, you would have to
> > call the page sequence template, apply all the templates for the
> > text before the long table, call the long table sequence, then call
> > on the original sequence for the rest of the content. While this
> > solution is possible, it does not lend itself to reuse, because you
> > would have to do a lot of re-writing each time.
> >
> > (2) requires that you know how much of your table fits on one page
> > before you write the rest of it. Though you cannot know the exact
> > inches your text will take, you can make an educated guess and
> > readjust the table after a few trial runs. Though (2) is far from
> > perfect, at seems to provide less re-writing than (1) and lends
> > itself for reuse.
> >
> > Any thoughts or hints before I launch into implementing (2)?
> >
> > Paul
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