Re: [docbook-apps] wide tables with XEP/FO

Hi Ron,
If your table fits on one landscape page, you can add a orient="land"
attribute to the table.  The stylesheet will put it into a block-container
with rotated reference.  But a block-container will not flow text to the
next page if it doesn't fit on the current page.  Only PSMI can handle
multipage landscape tables.

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
DocBook Consulting



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Catterall" <>
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Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 7:31 AM
Subject: RE: [docbook-apps] wide tables with XEP/FO


> David
> many thanks, I'll have a look at psmi and see if I can use/adapt it.
> Unfortunately my tables are pretty deep at present - sect3 level.
> Ron
>
> >I haven't tried this customization with recent docbook xsls, so it
> >probably needs to be updated, but you can post-process the xsl-fo
> >produced by (a customization of) the docbook xsls using Ken Holman's
> >psmi stylesheets <http://www.cranesoftwrights.com/resources/psmi/> to
> >landscape things as long as they aren't deep in the resulting fo tree.
> >E.g. if you could make the table the direct child of a chapter or
> >appendix, it would work, but wouldn't work for tables in sections:
> >http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-apps/200312/msg00094.html
> >
> >Hope that helps,
> >David
> >
> >>  -----Original Message-----
> >>  From: Ron Catterall [mailto:]
> >>  Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 7:11 AM
> >>  To: 
> >>  Subject: [docbook-apps] wide tables with XEP/FO
> >>
> >>  I have some wide tables which drive XEP crazy (FOP just bombs out).
> >>  How can I turn some tables sideways (i.e.landscape) in FO output that
> >>  is normal page (i.e. portrait).  (Not all tables, I have some which
> >>  fit happily on a portrait page.)   Looks like I need a processing
> >>  instruction of some sort for the wide tables.  Can anyone help?
> >>  Ron
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