From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/28751 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Split Table Desperation - again! Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 10:23:29 +0200 Message-ID: <449A5381.8000304@wxs.nl> References: Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1150964633 16322 80.91.229.2 (22 Jun 2006 08:23:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 08:23:53 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Jun 22 10:23:52 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FtKTT-0007lP-Ms for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Jun 2006 10:23:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D57451282B; Thu, 22 Jun 2006 10:23:39 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 24655-07-6; Thu, 22 Jun 2006 10:23:35 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01DEF1282F; Thu, 22 Jun 2006 10:23:35 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18E971282F for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2006 10:23:33 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 24655-07-5 for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2006 10:23:31 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-083-247-100-017.solcon.nl [83.247.100.17]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 7B0831282B for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2006 10:23:31 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.102] (unverified [10.100.1.102]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.5b3) with ESMTP id 23148 for multiple; Thu, 22 Jun 2006 12:23:30 +0400 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) Original-To: Johannes Graumann , c In-Reply-To: X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com r=-274017400 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:28751 Archived-At: Johannes Graumann wrote: > Hello, > > While the recent modifications to the split table mechanisms provided by > Hans help me out with my most annoying monster table using the XML mapping > code below (see > http://www.idyll.org:8081/JohSite/context/p46-50_split_working.pdf/view for > the typeset table; clearly to much whitespace, but everything is typeset > and page boundaries are honored) and several other -smaller- tables in the > same tome (see > http://www.idyll.org:8081/JohSite/context/p45_unsplit_working.pdf/view for > a typeset example), one medium-sized table that clearly should not be split > gets split none the less (see > http://www.idyll.org:8081/JohSite/context/p162-163_unnecessary_split.pdf/view) ... > and I have no idea why. > > some of your rows are quite high and since you want to repeat headers ... this is how it works (1) keep at least one row with a repeated header (2) the same with a repeated footer (3) when a combination of header/row/footer becomes too high for a page, ignore that fact and flush it (else we get a loop) so, what you see is pretty natural in your case, i'd try to make the last column wider so that less space gets lost and (i can think of a way to let the text continue on too empty pages; needs some braincycles) Hans