I'm running Publican 2.8 on Fedora 16.
I have a manual that I'm creating and in order to prevent all tables
splitting across pages, I've added the following to a customisation
layer which I've called pdf.xsl after renaming the Publican file of the
same name to pdf.original.xsl. (This is in the /usr/share/publican/xsl
directory.)
<?xml version='1.0'?>
<!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
...
<!-- import original pdf.xsl file from Publican -->
<xsl:import href="pdf.original.xsl"/>
<!-- Don't allow tables to split over a page boundary. This will,
++ unfortunately, cause large tables to crush up. These will
++ need an individual processing instruction as follows:
++
++ <table>
++ (optional) <title> ... </title>
++ <?dbfo keep-together="auto" ?>
++ ...
++ </table>
-->
<xsl:attribute-set name="table.properties">
<xsl:attribute name="keep-together.within-column">always</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:attribute-set>
<xsl:attribute-set name="informaltable.properties">
<xsl:attribute name="keep-together.within-column">always</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:attribute-set>
...
</xsl:stylesheet>
The problem is that while the tables do not split over a page break,
which is what I want, the two very large tables now get crushed up onto
a page.
I looked in the tmp/en-US/xml folder for the Publican processed xml file
and the processing instruction I added to the big tables had been
stripped out.
There were no warning messages about deprecated or invalid xml when
processing the particular file in question.
Is there a way I can get around this please?
As a workaround I could add the instruction to the Publican generated
XML file, there are only two large tables, but how do I then get the
build to (a) stop after generating the XML and (b) generate the PDF from
the tmp/en-US/xlm files rather than starting again from my source files?
Many thanks.
Cheers,
Norm.
PS. Happy to log a bug, but a search showed nothing relevant and I
thought I'd ask first. Thanks.
--
Norman Dunbar
Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd
Registered address:
Thorpe House
61 Richardshaw Lane
Pudsey
West Yorkshire
United Kingdom
LS28 7EL
Company Number: 05132767
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