On Mar 26, 2007, at 11:31, Vincent Hennebert wrote:
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And there is a remaining question raised by Andreas:
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[me:]
If the table is broken across several pages and the header shall be
replicated, do
border-before for table and table-column play again in border-
resolution
for the second and following headers?
[Andreas:]
YES! Not only border-before even, I think, but that is open for
interpretation. The column's border-before *and* after need to be
considered for each body, header/footer that appears on a given page.
One could also argue that the column's span the entire table for each
page, so the column's border-after does not need to be considered for
the header's last row, for instance.
Interesting point of vue. I think it can be summarized by the attached
picture. Jeremias' position corresponds to 1., and I suspect this
is the
more common understanding. Andreas' is 2., but I'm afraid you'll be
alone ;-) Mine's tends to be 3., although I'm ok with 1.
If there is no other comment I'll go with 1.
1. is also fine with me. As I said, it's open for interpretation, and
I would agree that option 1. is what the largest part of our audience
will expect.
In a way, in the majority of use-cases option 2. /almost/ gives the
same result as 1.
It would only give slightly different results if the column's after-
border is different from the before-border. I think you'll have to
look hard for cases where people specify different border-specs for
the two opposite sides, but as you say: nothing prevents people from
achieving weird effects. :-)
Cheers,
Andreas
