Hi Georg, Georg Datterl wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I guess I need your help again. I have a 3-column page layout containing a > table. And I have a headline which should be printed on every page, but not > every column: > > headline... > > TH TH TH TH TH TH > 1a 1b 5a 5b 9a 9b > 2a 2b 6a 6b 10a 10b > 3a 3b 7a 7b 11a 11b > 4a 4b 8a 8b 12a 12b > > Now the easiest solution would be: Put "headline..." in the header. Problem: > If the header has more lines than one, it flows into the body content. > > Having a main table with "headline..." in the table header and the actual > table in the table body solves that problem, but then the 3-column flow is > lost, since I don't know how many rows fit on a page and therefore I don't > know whether the first entry in the second column is 5a/5b or maybe 6a/6b. > and of course that depends on the headline height, too. > > Next, I tried a table with two header rows, one containing "headline..." and > the other one TH/TH. Is there a way to suppress a header row in the second > and third column? > > Ideas, anyone?
I have the feeling this is a job for markers, but I’ve never played with markers myself. Maybe something like this: put a marker containing the headline in every cell, and a retrieve-marker with retrieve-boundary="page". Hope this shows you the path to a solution. Vincent --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: fop-users-unsubscr...@xmlgraphics.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: fop-users-h...@xmlgraphics.apache.org
