From: Helberg, Clay (chelberg@spss.com)
Date: Fri Jan 24 2003 - 09:24:51 PST
Thanks, Jeff. I'll try the keep tricks to see if I can get something acceptable in the short term.
David or Nikolai, do you have any idea how soon the table-header implementation will be updated to be more conformant?
--Clay
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Beal [mailto:jeff.beal@ansys.com]
> Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 10:52 AM
> To: 'xep-support@renderx.com'
> Subject: RE: [xep-support] Page breaks in tables with row spans
>
>
> The fact that the table header comes after the remainder of a
> cell split
> across pages is a known limitation of XEP. (see
> http://www.renderx.com/Tests/doc/html/spec.html#d1e3328) The
> documented
> workaround is to prevent page breaks from occuring within
> table cells by
> placing keep-together.within-column="always" on all table
> cells. However,
> this doesn't work in the case of cells spanning multiple
> rows, because XEP
> is still able to keep all of the *content* of the cell
> together. I have
> been able to achieve desired results in a test case by placing
> keep-with-next.within-column="always" on all rows in the span
> except for the
> last.
>
> Jeff Beal
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Helberg, Clay [mailto:chelberg@spss.com]
> Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 11:08 AM
> To: XEP Support (E-mail)
> Subject: FW: [xep-support] Page breaks in tables with row spans
>
>
> Hi--
>
> (Please forgive the duplicate post--folks are usually pretty
> responsive on
> this list, but I haven't heard anything at all from my first
> posting of this
> question. I'm sending it again in case it got lost the first
> time around.)
>
> I have some big tables with cells that span rows. The tables
> break across
> pages okay in general, except for one thing: the table
> heading row on the
> second and subsequent pages is inserted after the cell that spans rows
> across the page break, rather than at the top of the page.
> See the example
> below if my description isn't clear (use Courier to make the
> tables line up
> properly).
>
> Is this a problem with my FO, or is it a bug in XEP? If the
> former, can
> someone give me a hint how to fix my FO to make the heading
> rows appear at
> the top of the page even when there are row spans? If the latter, can
> someone from RenderX let me know if it's a known bug, when it might be
> fixed, and if there's a workaround? Thanks.
>
> --Clay
>
> Here's an example to illustrate what I mean. Suppose I have
> this table:
>
> +------------------+-----------+
> | Col 1 head | Col 2 head+ <- heading row
> +------------------+-----------+
> | | blah +
> | | blah +
> | | blah +
> | | blah +
> | | blah +
> | first group | blah +
> | | blah +
> | | blah +
> | | blah +
> | | blah +
> | | blah +
> +------------------+-----------+
> | | yadda +
> | second group | yadda +
> | | yadda +
> +------------------+-----------+
>
> Now for the sake of illustration, suppose an output page is
> 11 lines long.
> What I get in the output is something like this:
>
> +------------------+-----------+
> | Col 1 head | Col 2 head+
> +------------------+-----------+
> | | blah +
> | | blah +
> | | blah +
> | | blah +
> | | blah +
> | first group | blah +
> | | blah +
> | | blah +
> +------------------+-----------+
>
> ================PAGE BREAK==============
>
> | | blah +
> | | blah +
> | | blah +
> +------------------+-----------+
> | Col 1 head | Col 2 head+
> +------------------+-----------+
> | | yadda +
> | second group | yadda +
> | | yadda +
> +------------------+-----------+
>
> What I want to see is more like this:
>
> +------------------+-----------+
> | Col 1 head | Col 2 head+
> +------------------+-----------+
> | | blah +
> | | blah +
> | | blah +
> | | blah +
> | | blah +
> | first group | blah +
> | | blah +
> | | blah +
> +------------------+-----------+
>
> ================PAGE BREAK==============
>
> +------------------+-----------+
> | Col 1 head | Col 2 head+
> +------------------+-----------+
> | | blah +
> | | blah +
> | | blah +
> +------------------+-----------+
> | | yadda +
> | second group | yadda +
> | | yadda +
> +------------------+-----------+
>
>
> Clay Helberg http://www.execpc.com/~helberg/
> SPSS Documentation chelberg@spss.com
> Speaking only for myself....
>
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