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RichardSteadman10-Marble
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August 17, 2011
Question

Continue table in second column

  • August 17, 2011
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Hi,

With styler 6.0 in APP mode, when a large table breaks onto the next
page is it possible to instruct Styler/APP to continue the table in
the second column of the page rather than the first?

Thanks,
Richard Steadman

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    ebenton1-Visitor
    1-Visitor
    August 17, 2011
    If it's a CALS table (SOEX), then I believe that the lack of a value for the pgwide attribute will automatically make a table stay in one column and go to the top of the next column when it reached the bottom of the page.
    Whether you use Z-paging or L-paging with or without balance may also affect this. Or FOSI versus XSL-FO would also affect the markup required.




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    RichardSteadman10-MarbleAuthor
    10-Marble
    August 17, 2011
    Hi Ed,

    Thanks for the suggestion. When the table is started in the second
    column of the current page, what I would like it to do is to
    continue in the second column of the next page, rather than the
    natural flow into the first column of the next page.

    It looks like it may not be possible, but I was hoping there
    was some APP trick or something I could apply on the continued
    part of the table to make it break into the next column.

    I'm using APP for the formatting engine, not FOSI, so I don't think
    I can use Z or L paging. I don't think that would have the desired
    effect in any case.

    Thanks,
    Richard


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    GarethOakes16-Pearl
    16-Pearl
    August 17, 2011
    If the table goes to the second column of the next page then what would go
    in the first column of the next page? Normal body text? If so, then what you
    are asking for is a multi-page float (I think). This sounds like a very
    unusual requirement so I'm sure an example would help.

    -G
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    RichardSteadman10-MarbleAuthor
    10-Marble
    August 18, 2011
    Hi Gareth,

    Well, the scenario is that there's an image in the left column
    and a table describing it in the right column, so if the table
    hits the bottom of the page I need the left column blank (or
    even repeating the image) and the table continuing in the right
    column.

    Probably I need an approach that doesn't use columns but some
    other mechanism to place the image and table side-by-side.

    Thanks,
    Richard

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    GarethOakes16-Pearl
    16-Pearl
    August 18, 2011
    Yeah there are two things that come to mind:

    1. Make your columns each separate frames with separate streams. Put the
    images in the left-hand stream and the tables in the right-hand stream. You
    can use APP feature to keep images lined up with tables. Getting
    the images to repeat only when a table wraps to another page would require
    some trickery though.

    2. Use a wrapper table around both the images and the tables. The images go
    in the first column, the tables in the second column of the outer table. If
    you set on the outer table then the inner tables will be
    allowed to break over pages. Getting the images to repeat in that situation
    would be easier.

    -G
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    RichardSteadman10-MarbleAuthor
    10-Marble
    August 19, 2011
    Thanks again Gareth - I think I'll pursue the wrapper table approach.

    The side-by-side example in the Service manual application in styler
    uses a similar layout, though I'm not sure I can hang a custom
    table off the elements I have to deal with. I might just try to
    construct it with APP code instead.

    Regards,
    Richard

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