Re: Table Layout with Page Breaks
Hi Yuri Indeed, keep-with-next does work when set for each row. But you scared me with the endless loop comment, so for now I would keep my stylesheets the way I had them. sorry for scaring you, not intentionally ;-) Somewhat related question: I am using space-before for those short tables to leave some white space between them, but if the page break happens right after a table, the following table on the next page will be shifted down, e.g. __ page 1 starts table 1 --- required gap table 2 --- required gap table 3 __ page 2 starts --- unnecessary gap table 4 Is there any way to avoid this gap? As I read the xsl specification, space-before.conditionality should control this. If you use space-before.conditionality = discard, the space at the beginning of an areas (like the page) will be discarded. But as discard is the default value for conditionality, I suppose it's not implemented yet. (Anybody out there who knows better?) - Corinna - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Table Layout with Page Breaks (re-visited)
I'm understanding your problem a little better now. This probably won't solve all your problems, but be sure you have a margin-bottom attribute on your region-body tag. If you make the margin-bottom the same as the extent on your region-after it should keep it from printing over your page number. This is assuming your page number is in the region-after area used by 'static-content flow-name=xsl-region-after'. simple-page-master name=pages region-before extent=Y.0in/ region-body margin-bottom=X.0in margin-top=Y.0in/ region-after extent=X.0in/ /simple-page-master Same with the region-before tag and margin-top attribute to keep it out of your header. Hope that helps/works. JohnPT fop-dev-return-10926-jthaemlitz=oreillyauto.com@XML. APACHE.ORG To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/17/01 01:12 PM cc: Please respond to fop-dev Subject: Table Layout with Page Breaks (re-visited) I previously made a posting regarding this topic and received some helpful responses. However, I'm still having the problem. This time, I'll describe the problem in greater detail. I use FOP to dynamically create a table from database data. The resulting table can range from just a few rows to many rows, requiring multiple pages to display the table. The problem I'm having is that a multi-page table doesn't gracefully traverse the page boundaries. The table can continue past the page number to the very bottom of the page, with sometimes only half of the last row appearing on the first page, with the remaining table being displayed on the next page. I've tried keep-with-next, plus other attributes, but haven't had any success at resolving this issue. I've made sure that all table tags are nested under the xsl-region-body tag, as suggested by John T. Perhaps part of my problem is that the text in one of the columns is wrapped onto three lines, as the column width is not sufficient for all of the text to fit on one line. I'm thinking that perhaps FOP can't set up the page breaks properly as a result (which is simply a guess). I'm added some logic in my XSL file to end the table and start a new table every x number of rows (by using the mod() method). However, I need to be able to set the cell height for this to consistently work (as the number of rows in a cell could vary). I tried setting height from the row tag as well as from the cell tag, but the requested height is being ignored. I've been using version 0.19.0. Today, I'm going to try 0.20.1 to see if there is a difference. Any help or suggestion would be greatly appreciated Chris W. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Table Layout with Page Breaks (re-visited)
Hi Chris, Yes, definitely try a more recent version. The latest is actually 0.20.2. That should have support for setting height on either row or cell and maybe some sizing problems have been fixed. To prevent rows being broken, use keep-together=always on the table-row object. That's the only object in FOP where keep-together works. Also check the relation between the extent attribute on your before and after regions and top and bottom margins on your body region to make sure the body doesn't overlap the after region. HTH, Karen West, Chris wrote: I previously made a posting regarding this topic and received some helpful responses. However, I'm still having the problem. This time, I'll describe the problem in greater detail. I use FOP to dynamically create a table from database data. The resulting table can range from just a few rows to many rows, requiring multiple pages to display the table. The problem I'm having is that a multi-page table doesn't gracefully traverse the page boundaries. The table can continue past the page number to the very bottom of the page, with sometimes only half of the last row appearing on the first page, with the remaining table being displayed on the next page. I've tried keep-with-next, plus other attributes, but haven't had any success at resolving this issue. I've made sure that all table tags are nested under the xsl-region-body tag, as suggested by John T. Perhaps part of my problem is that the text in one of the columns is wrapped onto three lines, as the column width is not sufficient for all of the text to fit on one line. I'm thinking that perhaps FOP can't set up the page breaks properly as a result (which is simply a guess). I'm added some logic in my XSL file to end the table and start a new table every x number of rows (by using the mod() method). However, I need to be able to set the cell height for this to consistently work (as the number of rows in a cell could vary). I tried setting height from the row tag as well as from the cell tag, but the requested height is being ignored. I've been using version 0.19.0. Today, I'm going to try 0.20.1 to see if there is a difference. Any help or suggestion would be greatly appreciated Chris W. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Table Layout with Page Breaks
Title: Table Layout with Page Breaks Hi, Yuri, generally the property keep-with-next should work. I tested it with FOP 0.20.1 successfully. I'm not quite sure if the hassle Darren creates by using nested tables is a must-have. You should achieve the same results by using keep-with-next for every row on your table. Single disadvantage (as in Darren's solution): if somehow a table doesn't fit on a single page (or Darrens row becomes bigger than a page) you might run into an endless loop. That is a known problem and (hopefully ;)) being worked on. HTH, Corinna - Original Message - From: West, Chris To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 1:30 AM Subject: Table Layout with Page Breaks I'm using fop to generate tables that vary in length, so I need to be able set attributes such that the table layout will accommodate page breaks. I've tried using "keep-with-next" applied to fo:table-row and "height" applied to fo:table (plus many others) to setup the table layout so that it isn't truncated by a new page, but haven't had much success. Does FOP support this functionality? Chris W.
RE: Table Layout with Page Breaks
Corinna, Indeed, keep-with-next does work when set for each row. But you scared me with the endless loop comment, so for now I would keep my stylesheets the way I had them. Somewhat related question: I am using space-before for those short tables to leave some white space between them, but if the page break happens right after a table, the following table on the next page will be shifted down, e.g. __ page 1 starts table 1 --- required gap table 2 --- required gap table 3 __ page 2 starts --- unnecessary gap table 4 Is there any way to avoid this gap? YS -Original Message- From: Corinna Hischke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 12:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Table Layout with Page Breaks Hi, Yuri, generally the property keep-with-next should work. I tested it with FOP 0.20.1 successfully. I'm not quite sure if the hassle Darren creates by using nested tables is a must-have. You should achieve the same results by using keep-with-next for every row on your table. Single disadvantage (as in Darren's solution): if somehow a table doesn't fit on a single page (or Darrens row becomes bigger than a page) you might run into an endless loop. That is a known problem and (hopefully ;)) being worked on. HTH, Corinna - Original Message - From: West, Chris mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' mailto:'[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 1:30 AM Subject: Table Layout with Page Breaks I'm using fop to generate tables that vary in length, so I need to be able set attributes such that the table layout will accommodate page breaks. I've tried using keep-with-next applied to fo:table-row and height applied to fo:table (plus many others) to setup the table layout so that it isn't truncated by a new page, but haven't had much success. Does FOP support this functionality? Chris W. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Table Layout with Page Breaks
Make sure your table is in the xsl-region-body and not in the xsl-region-before or xsl-region-after. I have tables that go on for many pages without problems. You can then use the xsl-region-before for table headers at the top of each page. If you start your tables with the break-before=page attribute you will start a new page for each table. So you could have a 100 row table that goes across 3 pages, a 2 row table on 1 page then a 50 row table on 2 pages if that's what your wanting. John fop-dev-return-10770-jthaemlitz=oreillyauto.com@XML. APACHE.ORG To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/10/01 06:30 PM cc: Please respond to fop-dev Subject: Table Layout with Page Breaks I'm using fop to generate tables that vary in length, so I need to be able set attributes such that the table layout will accommodate page breaks. I've tried using keep-with-next applied to fo:table-row and height applied to fo:table (plus many others) to setup the table layout so that it isn't truncated by a new page, but haven't had much success. Does FOP support this functionality? Chris W. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Table Layout with Page Breaks
I think what Chris was asking is what needs to be done to make sure the table that doesn't fit on a page is started from the next page. I have a similar need. So far I just used table-header to at least make sure that even if the table crosses the page, at least the header will be repeated, but since my tables usually have only 5-6 rows, I would prefer for it to start from the next page if it can't fit on the previous page. Wouldn't break-before=page start EACH table from a new page? This is not what I would want. keep-with-next didn't work for me either. YS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Table Layout with Page Breaks Make sure your table is in the xsl-region-body and not in the xsl-region-before or xsl-region-after. I have tables that go on for many pages without problems. You can then use the xsl-region-before for table headers at the top of each page. If you start your tables with the break-before=page attribute you will start a new page for each table. So you could have a 100 row table that goes across 3 pages, a 2 row table on 1 page then a 50 row table on 2 pages if that's what your wanting. John fop-dev-return-10770-jthaemlitz=oreillyauto.com@XML. APACHE.ORG To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/10/01 06:30 PM cc: Please respond to fop-dev Subject: Table Layout with Page Breaks I'm using fop to generate tables that vary in length, so I need to be able set attributes such that the table layout will accommodate page breaks. I've tried using keep-with-next applied to fo:table-row and height applied to fo:table (plus many others) to setup the table layout so that it isn't truncated by a new page, but haven't had much success. Does FOP support this functionality? Chris W. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
