Informaltables breaking across columns

[HelenM]

Hi

I am having some trouble with an <informaltable> as it is breaking across a column. I want to force it to start a new column. I thought that tables automatically were kept together. I checked the fo/param.xsl file and the keep-together.within-column was set to "auto". I changed it to "always", but it doesn't seem to have done the trick.

Can anyone help?

Thanks very much.
Best wishes,
Helen

[sorin_ristache]

Hi,

You have to add the attribute keep-together.within-column=always in the attribute set called table.table.properties from fo/param.xsl. You should create a Docbook customization layer that adds this property in table.table.properties:

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<xsl:attribute-set name="table.table.properties">

  <xsl:attribute name="border-before-width.conditionality">retain</xsl:attribute>

  <xsl:attribute name="border-collapse">collapse</xsl:attribute>

  <xsl:attribute name="keep-together.within-column">always</xsl:attribute>

</xsl:attribute-set>

Regards,
Sorin

[HelenM]

Again Sorin, thank you so much. You have solved the problem in 5 minutes that I have been bashing my head against a wall trying to solve for some time now!