Dear Brian,
thank you for your help and pointing out the issues !
You are right: my table should span two or more pages in the final
document. (Ideally starting on an even page.)
You also are right about margins: the table should break so it does not
print outside of page margins. (Analogous to Calc)
Why not use Calc in the first place? Because I need differentiated
paragraph styles (even different styles within the same table field)
When using wide tables:
I'm aware that I'd have to repeat the first column manually if the
table has row headings (unless there was a propertyfor columnslike there
is "repeat heading" for rows)
I'm also aware that I'd need to adjust the starting position
manually if I want the table to start on a left page (At least I'm not
aware of a feature like section break where I could force a new left or
right page.)
Splitting the table into several tables on different pages brings me the
following disadvantages:
It is very cumbersome after editing to continually adjust row
heights to always match the tallest segment of a row, in order to keep
rows across the different tables at equal height - in particular if
different font sizes are used and heights don't differ by integral
number of (standard) line heights.
If the table extends vertically across several pages, the
intertwining of pages has to be done manually and has to be redone every
time editing moves a row to a different page.
If I pretended a larger paper than I'm going to use,
I'd have to insert a spare column to reserve room for the usually
illegible center fold and printer limitations and would have to adjust
the position of this column when changes of column width lead to a
change of the horizontal page break.
I could not use "brochure" printing (or would have to rearrange
pages and page no.s manually)
thanks and regards,
Axel
On 17.05.2016 10:25, Brian Barker wrote:
At 09:53 17/05/2016 +0200, Axel Schubert wrote:
A point on my wishlist:
I think it would be helpful, if tables in OO writer could break
HORIZONTALLY across pages. I.e. allow table width larger than page
width.
So a table would span two facing pages in the final document? This
wouldn't work, would it? Or at least it would be difficult to use.
Normal printers don't print to the edge of the paper, so any table
spanning two pages would have parts that wouldn't print. You'd have to
build in the necessary breaks yourself. Or are you expecting Writer to
split the table at the page margins? Tables are presently not limited
to being within the page margins.
Suppose you create a table split across two pages and then changes to
other parts of the document move it down to the following page. The
table would then be split - unreadably - across two pages which are
not facing. Or would you expect Writer to leave an empty page and
automatically move the table to the next facing pages?
It's probably fairly easy to construct two matching tables on such
facing pages and adjust their vertical positioning to match.
If you are intending to print on, say, A3 paper and then fold it into
an A4 document, you would indeed be able to print a table across a
single spread. But in that case it would be straightforward to admit
that your page size was really A3 and not A4 and to use columns or
frames or sections to position other text around your table.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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