On 21.12.2005 22:16:46 Jay Bryant wrote:
> > Hi, all,
> >
> > I'm creating reports for a new client. The reports consist entirely of
> > tables (not blind tables used for layout but actual tabular content).
> >
> > In 0.20.5, I can't get keep-together or keep-with-next to work on a table
> > row. I get page breaks within table-cells.
> >
> > In .90alpha, I don't get page breaks in table-cells, but it causes another
> > problem. .90alpha collapses (renders with 0 height, it seems) blocks that
> > contain just a non-breaking space (that is, character & # 1 6 0 ; with
> extra
> > spaces). I need those blocks to be full height, as I am using them to
> > position things within table cells. Collapsing <fo:block/> would be fine
> > (I'm using empty blocks for page breaks between tables, in fact, and it's
> > good there), but it seems to me that blocks with content (even just a
> space)
> > shouldn't be collapsed.
> >
> > So, I either need to know how to get page breaks to not occur within table
> > cells (that is, only at the rows between cells) in 0.20.5 or I need to
> know
> > how to prevent blocks that contain spaces from collapsing in .90alpha. The
> > 0.20.5 solution would be preferred, but I think I can talk my client into
> > moving to .90alpha if it fixes the page break problem.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> 
> I used block-containers with height attribute values wrapped around empty
> blocks to make my spacer blocks, so I've gotten the .90alpha solution to
> work. Combined with the -q option to shut off all the to-do messages, it'll
> work.

That seems like a hack. Please try my suggestions I just sent.

> I'd still like to know how to prevent page breaks within table cells in
> 0.20.5 in case my client (or some future client) resists going to .90alpha.

keep-together is supposed to work if specified on a table-row. Does that
mean that this doesn't work in your case. If you can post a small
example, I can have a look.


Jeremias Maerki


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