How to rotate text in table cell

[EmilMeindl]

Is there a way to rotate text 90 degrees in a table row or table cell?

Thanks,

[TimPhelps]

Are you using Arbortext FOSI composition, Arbortext Print Publishing composion or XSL-FO composition?

PDF output, HTML output?

[EmilMeindl]

FOSI for PDF output.

[PeterVarga · Accepted solution]

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>

[TimPhelps]

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

[EmilMeindl]

Thanks for your help!

[bfriesen]

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

[TimPhelps]

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.)

[tnouchi]

Will this also work in Change Page for Defense?

[bfriesen]

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

[ptc-954425]

Will this solution work for the Editor vs. the Print Composer output?

[ClayHelberg]

You won't see the rotation in the editor window, only in the composed output.

[bfriesen]

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

[ClayHelberg]

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

[bfriesen]

Thanks for the guidance Clay. How do you set which cells you would like to rotate?

Bryon

[ClayHelberg]

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".

[Bhanu_Prakash]

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

[bfriesen]

What setting do you need to change to see the text rotate?

Bryon