Just found this unanswered. Sorry.

On 27.04.2005 18:28:55 Andreas L. Delmelle wrote:
> > > I've already documented a known problem [5] (at
> > > the bottom). I just hope it won't bite us later on.
> > >
> > > [5]
> > http://wiki.apache.org/xmlgraphics-fop/TableLayout/KnuthElementsForTables
> >
> > I don't think it is a dangerous problem: it can be recognized and properly
> > handled, as you wrote, discarding the wrong elements after the first inner
> > break and collecting the right ones (and this mechanism is needed anyway).
> >
> > It is such an unlikely situation that I don't think we should worry about
> > it: I really can't think of a real example of table with a monstrous row
> > that must be broken more than once!!
> 
> BTW: Does this problem pose itself only if a single cell or row spans more
> than two pages, or also when an entire row-group does so?

Possibly, yes. A row-group in this context is formed because at least
one cell has row-spanning. Therefore, you have the possibility that a
cell span over more than 2 pages.

> Just asking
> because, in the latter case, it may turn out to be less unlikely/more
> dangerous than it seems at first glance, albeit only a tiny bit. (apart from
> the already mentioned common workaround for start-indents in 0.20.5...)

Well, less likely simply means that it can happen and sooner or later
we'll have to deal with it.


Jeremias Maerki

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