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Is there a way to rotate text 90 degrees in a table row or table cell?
Thanks,
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I hope it helps:
<e-i-c gi="entry">
<charlist charsubsetref="own-line">
<font inherit="1">
<hyphen inherit="1">
</charlist>
<att>
<specval attname="rotate" attval="1">
<charsubset>
<suppress sup="1">
<usetext source="%\ROTCCW%,#CONTENT,%\ENDROTCCW%"></usetext>
</charsubset>
</att>
</e-i-c>
Are you using Arbortext FOSI composition, Arbortext Print Publishing composion or XSL-FO composition?
PDF output, HTML output?
FOSI for PDF output.
I hope it helps:
<e-i-c gi="entry">
<charlist charsubsetref="own-line">
<font inherit="1">
<hyphen inherit="1">
</charlist>
<att>
<specval attname="rotate" attval="1">
<charsubset>
<suppress sup="1">
<usetext source="%\ROTCCW%,#CONTENT,%\ENDROTCCW%"></usetext>
</charsubset>
</att>
</e-i-c>
This answer looks good.
It matches the content described in the PTC article 38621
https://www.ptc.com/appserver/cs/view/solution.jsp?n=CS38621
Thanks for your help!
What sort of file do I look for to add this entry to. Is it added to .style or is it done in a .fos?
Bryon
Peter's solution can be place in a .fos stylesheet.
It can also be placed into a .style by using a FOSI source edit.
Note: it is best to place source edits in property sets.
That way an element can use the property set, but the element's condtions and/or contexts themselves do not contain the source edit. (Can reduce the complication of the source edit.)
Will this also work in Change Page for Defense?
Still not sure where this goes.
I go to propert Set and created a new Table_cell_rotate. where do I go to paste the text above
Bryon
Will this solution work for the Editor vs. the Print Composer output?
You won't see the rotation in the editor window, only in the composed output.
thanks Clay, wanted to see if I made the e-i-c change in the correct location and it seems I did not.
thanks
Bryon
Hi Bryon--
When you update your FOSI, don't insert the whole chunk of code that Peter posted. Instead, there should already be an <eic> for "entry". Find that one, copy the entire <att> element and its content from Peter's code sample, and insert it at the end of the entry EIC (just before the </eic> end tag, after any other <att> elements).
If it still doesn't work, you might need to play around with the order of <att> conditions in your entry EIC, to prevent some other <att> condition from triggering first before you get to the @rotate check.
--Clay
Thanks for the guidance Clay. How do you set which cells you would like to rotate?
Bryon
That's what the @attname and @attval attributes indicate in the FOSI snippet. In this case, it's @rotate=1 on the <entry> element. I think that's what Docbook uses by default.
For DITA and specializations thereof, you would probably want to use @outputclass instead, since DITA doesn't define a @rotate attribute. So, in the FOSI code, you would change it to look like:
<specval attname="outputclass" attval="rotate">
and then in your document, for the table cell you want to rotate, put the caret inside it, right-click, select "Modify Attributes->Cell", and set the "outputclass" attribute to "rotate".
Hi Clay,
I really Thank you and Peter for sharing the solution to wrap the content in table and rotate it.
However, I tried to implement the same in my file but unable to do so.
I have a predefined attribute "outputclass=maintenance.calendar" which is given to the table. Once it is given the content in header row should rotate 90deg CCW.
I have created a context as [xpath="table[@outputclass='maintenance.calendar']/tgroup/thead/row/entry"]
I used the code but output doesn't change.
This is what I have done. Do we need to substitute "#CONTENT" with any particular tag?
<e-i-c gi="entry"
xpath="table[@outputclass='maintenance.calendar']/tgroup/thead/row/entry"
selector="table[@outputclass='maintenance.calendar']/tgroup/thead/row/entry">
<charlist inherit="1">
<indent inherit="0"/>
<textbrk startln="1" endln="1"/></charlist>
<att>
<specval attname="PRINT-ONLY"
attloc="system-var" attval="#ANY"/>
<charsubset charsubsetref="Table_header">
<font famname="HelveticaNeueLT Std Lt Cn"
size="10pt" weight="bold"/>
<indent inherit="0"/>
<highlt fontclr="#FFFFFF"/></charsubset>
</att>
<att>
<specval attname="gentext-only"
attloc="system-var" attval="#ANY"/>
<specval
attname="_styleexportfosi::reset_counters_seen"
attloc="system-func" attval="1"/>
<charsubset></charsubset>
</att>
<att>
<specval attname="outputclass"
attval="maintenance.calendar"/>
<charsubset>
<suppress sup="1"/>
<usetext
source="%\ROTCCW%,#CONTENT,%\ENDROTCCW%">
</usetext>
</charsubset>
</att>
</e-i-c>
Can you please help me understand how and what can be done??
Thanks in advance.
Bhanu
What setting do you need to change to see the text rotate?
Bryon