Re: Table macro choices?

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> The best I can do.

Thanks Wolfgang. At first glance, it appears to cover the essentials.
I'll need to hack on it for a few days to test the minor requirements that aren't so obvious in the sample PDF, but this gets me going again.

A particular advantage (if I'm interpreting this layout correctly) is avoiding the use of column spans for header and footer material (other than the actual column headings). This report has a number of different tabular layouts that I didn't show you, each with unique column counts. Much more reliable if it isn't necessary to watch colspan values in the meta-data sections (which should really be includes.)

I would think the general requirement here isn't that unusual for certain types of technical reports. This report is for a regulatory compliance application. If printed pages within a single report are ever separated, it is essential that the meta-data for the inspection be available on each page, not just the first or last. The same must be true for many scientific and technical layouts.

I particularly need to get my head around what's different from my initial approach.
Once again, thanks. I'll report on results in a few days for anyone following this.


cheers,
david


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