So how hard do you think it would be for a realtive FOP-newbie to write
some kind of extension?
I'm thinking of a few possible hacks:
1) Somehow implement the inverse of "table-omit-header-at-break". Then I
could specify the '<xxx> Continued' piece as the header and simply print
<xxx> as the first row of the table.
2) Add some facility for specifying a different header for every
occurrence after the first. I'd be happy with hard-coding the word
Continued if it was the only easy way.
Any other clever ideas? How hard is it to just stick something like this
in? It seems to me that with all the page-aware capabilites of FOP
(header, static content, keep-together, page-number, widows, orphans
etc.) there ought to be a sneaky way to piggy back this functionality
onto one of them.
Just to be clear, here's what I'm talking about:
My Page Header
<-- other stuff -->
My Table Header
row1
row2
row3
<-- new page -->
My Page Header
My Table Header (Continued)
row4
row5
row6
The block in question doesn't necessarily have to be a table, but it
can't be part of static content. It's nested inside two tables already,
one has a header of varying length (so it can't be part of the static
content).
Like I said, I have no idea how hard it is to go poking around in FOP. I
know enough about PDF to know that I want to stay at the highest level
possible (that's I think somehow suppressing the table header on the
first occurrence may be the best way for me to go). Thanks in advance
for any ideas.
-Matt
Arved Sandstrom wrote:
>
> At 09:33 PM 10/24/01 -0400, Matt Savino wrote:
> >Jim, I'm doing the same thing with my report. Add a different last-page id
> >block at the end of each section ( <fo:block
> >id="last-csr-page"></fo:block>) You'll also have to start a new
> >master-page-sequence with each section and set the initial page number to 1.
>
> I assume you mean new page-sequence. You can re-use simple-page-masters and
> page-sequence-masters all you like.
>
> >Now if we can just figure out how to get (Continued) into a table header!
> >I've been trying to come up with some clever way to change the header on the
> >fly or use table-omit-header in reverse, but I'm stumped. Is this what
> >marker/retrieve marker is supposed to be for by any chance? I'm playing with
> >them right now. I'll let you know if I get any where. ANd what the heck are
> >widows and orphans?
>
> Widows and orphans have to do with how many minimum lines are to be kept
> together at the beginning of the first area generated by an FO ("orphans")
> or at the end of the last area generated by the FO ("widows"). Not quite the
> same concept as you might be used to in, say, Word.
>
> Markers are for running headers and footers, where headers and footers are
> assumed to be modelled using fo:static-content. For a variety of reasons I
> see no way in which you could use them. In fact I see no solution to this
> problem using XSL 1.0; this falls into an identified set of problems which
> require formatting-time logic over and above what is currently available.
>
> Regards,
> Arved Sandstrom
>
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