Re: Either keeps in table rows in 0.20.5 or non-collapsing paragraphs in .90alpha - followup
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. 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. Thanks some more. Jay Bryant Bryant Communication Services - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Either keeps in table rows in 0.20.5 or non-collapsing paragraphs in .90alpha
I'm not so much into 0.20.5 these days, so without a demo file to start from (to save time) I can only try to help you with 0.90. We do have some problems with collapsing nbsps as you might have seen on this list lately. What I think could work for you is to specify block-progression-dimension.minimum=1em on a table-row. In that case, a row cannot collapse even if you only use a minimum fo:block/ inside the table-cells. Did I understand you correctly that keep-together on the table-rows works for you as expected in 0.90? HTH BTW, we're planning on releasing a beta version in the next few days, hopefully this week since I want to take a week off. On 21.12.2005 21:52:57 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 Jay Bryant Bryant Communication Services Jeremias Maerki - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Either keeps in table rows in 0.20.5 or non-collapsing paragraphs in .90alpha - followup
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 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Either keeps in table rows in 0.20.5 or non-collapsing paragraphs in .90alpha - followup
Hi, Jeremias, 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. It feels like a hack, too. I'll try your ideas. 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. Well, while I was preparing a sample that would show the problem, I got keep-together=always to work the way it should. I'm not sure what changed, so I'll let the matter drop, as I don't have time to pursue much testing at present. Thanks. J - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Either keeps in table rows in 0.20.5 or non-collapsing paragraphs in .90alpha
What I think could work for you is to specify block-progression-dimension.minimum=1em on a table-row. In that case, a row cannot collapse even if you only use a minimum fo:block/ inside the table-cells. That didn't work with 0.90. Here's a snippet from what I tested: fo:table-row block-progression-dimension.minimum=1em keep-together.within-page=always fo:table-cell border-width=1pt border-style=solid border-color=black fo:block xsl:use-attribute-sets=headerleftxsl:value-of select=@name//fo:block fo:block xsl:use-attribute-sets=headerleftxsl:value-of select=@city//fo:block fo:block xsl:use-attribute-sets=headerleftxsl:value-of select=@address//fo:block /fo:table-cell fo:table-cell border-width=1pt border-style=solid border-color=black fo:block/ fo:block/ fo:block/ fo:block/ fo:block xsl:use-attribute-sets=headercenterxsl:value-of select=@id//fo:block /fo:table-cell 0.90 collapses those empty blocks. Jay Bryant Bryant Communication Services - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Either keeps in table rows in 0.20.5 or non-collapsing paragraphs in .90alpha
Ah, I see you have multiple lines in a table-cell. In that case, just specify 5em (the number of lines you have in em) on block-progression-dimension.minimum. On 21.12.2005 23:54:52 Jay Bryant wrote: What I think could work for you is to specify block-progression-dimension.minimum=1em on a table-row. In that case, a row cannot collapse even if you only use a minimum fo:block/ inside the table-cells. That didn't work with 0.90. Here's a snippet from what I tested: fo:table-row block-progression-dimension.minimum=1em keep-together.within-page=always fo:table-cell border-width=1pt border-style=solid border-color=black fo:block xsl:use-attribute-sets=headerleftxsl:value-of select=@name//fo:block fo:block xsl:use-attribute-sets=headerleftxsl:value-of select=@city//fo:block fo:block xsl:use-attribute-sets=headerleftxsl:value-of select=@address//fo:block /fo:table-cell fo:table-cell border-width=1pt border-style=solid border-color=black fo:block/ fo:block/ fo:block/ fo:block/ fo:block xsl:use-attribute-sets=headercenterxsl:value-of select=@id//fo:block /fo:table-cell 0.90 collapses those empty blocks. Jay Bryant Bryant Communication Services Jeremias Maerki - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
