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October 22, 2010
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FOSI - controling the bottom rule on a continued table

  • October 22, 2010
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Is it possible to control the last rule on a page where a table breaks
across columns or pages? I have the following configurations:

1) Table with no row separating rules but has rules around the frame. I'd
like the point where the table breaks to have a rule across the bottom.

2) Table with row separating rules, when it breaks I would like the last
rule to not appear and the final row of the table (on contineud page) to
have a ruling).

With table properties I have been able to acheive:

1) Table with no row separation, with a frame, but the row at the break
point does not have a ruling. Final row of the table on continued page
does have the ruling.

2) Table with row separation rules has rules at the break point and end of
the table.

..dan

    5 replies

    1-Visitor
    October 28, 2010
    Hi Dan,

    If you haven't found them already, I suggest you take a look at the following:

    TPI 140533
    TPI 144352
    TAN 135831

    Our production environment is 5.2 M040 and I use a <doctype>.tmx file with these entries:

    % bottom table rules at page breaks
    \TableRulePreBrk=2
    \TableRulePostBrk=2

    Hope this helps.

    David

    David S. Taylor

    Project Manager, Structured Information
    Institute for Research in Construction
    National Research Council Canada
    Bldg. M-23A, Room 239
    1200 Montreal Road, Ottawa, ON K1A 0R6
    1-Visitor
    October 28, 2010
    > Hi Dan,
    >
    > If you haven't found them already, I suggest you take a look at the
    > following:
    >
    > TPI 140533
    > TPI 144352
    > TAN 135831

    These are help commands? I'm not following your reference.



    1-Visitor
    October 28, 2010
    Hi Dan,

    These are tech notes in the PTC Arbortext Support Knowledge Base.

    David
    1-Visitor
    October 28, 2010
    Thanks, just looked at these notes. It appears this is a global switch. If
    I'm reading my spec correctly (and it wasn't an oversite in the spec) it
    looks like a few special tables in the front matter have to be enclosed
    while the tables in the body don't.

    We have a meeting with the customer in a few weeks where I will try and
    verify the requirement. Based upon this information, it looks like I would
    have to compose the two sections differently and maybe even have 2
    different DTDs.

    ..dan

    > Hi Dan,
    >
    > These are tech notes in the PTC Arbortext Support Knowledge Base.
    >
    > David
    >
    1-Visitor
    October 28, 2010
    AFAIK, the .tmx files can be document-specific (like most other Arbortext config files) by putting them in the same directory as the document and naming them as <doc_name>.tmx.

    Perhaps this would do the trick if your tables are individual files.

    David