Keep a table on the same page

[BogdanM777]

Hi guys,

I would have another question for you:
How could I keep a table "whole" on a page, i.e. not to have it split over 2 pages, if its size permits of course?

Thank you

[radu_pisoi]

Hi,

I assume that you are talking about the DITA PDF customization.

In this case, a solution is to set the keep-together.within-page XSL-FO property for DITA tables.

This can be done by extending the attribute-set for the table element and add the keep-together.within-page attribute. The attribute set for the table is defined in DITA-OT/plugins/org.dita.pdf2/cfg/fo/attrs/tables-attr.xsl.

If you are using a DITA PDF customization plugin, you should specify the next attribute set in the DITA-PDF-Customization/fo/attrs/custom.xsl:

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<xsl:attribute-set name="table" use-attribute-sets="base-font">

  <xsl:attribute name="keep-together.within-page">1</xsl:attribute>

</xsl:attribute-set>

Make sure that the above XSLT file is referred from DITA-PDF-Customization/catalog.xml, the next line should be un-comment:

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<!-- Custom attributes entry -->

<uri name="cfg:fo/attrs/custom.xsl" uri="fo/attrs/custom.xsl"/>

More details about DITA to PDF Output Customization could be found in our user manual.

[BogdanM777]

Thank you very much Radu.
I will try that. The only thing was that I did not know in which file to do the modification for keep-together-within-page.
I did it for other elements and it worked very nicely.

Have a great day

[Boreas]

Hello,

Pushing my luck, I wanted to do the same thing but for a codeblock.
I added this code in the custom.xsl file.

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<xsl:attribute-set name="codeblock" use-attribute-sets="pre">

    <xsl:attribute name="keep-together.within-page">1</xsl:attribute>

    </xsl:attribute-set>

My reference to the customs.xsl file was already uncommented, So I figured I was in business.

But it did not work.

Is it because it's just not possible to do that? or am I missing something.

[Boreas]

Well, actually it works for the codeblock if I use

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

instead of

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<xsl:attribute name="keep-together.within-page">1</xsl:attribute>

I suspect we can probably do this for any element......