[xep-support] Page breaks in tables with row spans

[Helberg, Clay]

Hi--

I have some big tables with cells that span rows. The tables break across pages okay in general, except for one thing: the table heading row on the second and subsequent pages is inserted after the cell that spans rows across the page break, rather than at the top of the page. See the example below if my description isn't clear (use Courier to make the tables line up properly).

Is this a problem with my FO, or is it a bug in XEP? If the former, can someone give me a hint how to fix my FO to make the heading rows appear at the top of the page even when there are row spans? If the latter, can someone from RenderX let me know if it's a known bug, when it might be fixed, and if there's a workaround? Thanks.

							--Clay

Here's an example to illustrate what I mean. Suppose I have this table:

+------------------+-----------+
|     Col 1 head   | Col 2 head+  <- heading row
+------------------+-----------+
|                  |    blah   +
|                  |    blah   +
|                  |    blah   +
|                  |    blah   +
|                  |    blah   +
|   first group    |    blah   +
|                  |    blah   +
|                  |    blah   +
|                  |    blah   +
|                  |    blah   +
|                  |    blah   +
+------------------+-----------+
|                  |   yadda   +
|   second group   |   yadda   +
|                  |   yadda   +
+------------------+-----------+

Now for the sake of illustration, suppose an output page is 11 lines long. What I get in the output is something like this:

+------------------+-----------+
|     Col 1 head   | Col 2 head+
+------------------+-----------+
|                  |    blah   +
|                  |    blah   +
|                  |    blah   +
|                  |    blah   +
|                  |    blah   +
|   first group    |    blah   +
|                  |    blah   +
|                  |    blah   +
+------------------+-----------+

================PAGE BREAK==============

|                  |    blah   +
|                  |    blah   +
|                  |    blah   +
+------------------+-----------+
|     Col 1 head   | Col 2 head+
+------------------+-----------+
|                  |   yadda   +
|   second group   |   yadda   +
|                  |   yadda   +
+------------------+-----------+

What I want to see is more like this:

+------------------+-----------+
|     Col 1 head   | Col 2 head+
+------------------+-----------+
|                  |    blah   +
|                  |    blah   +
|                  |    blah   +
|                  |    blah   +
|                  |    blah   +
|   first group    |    blah   +
|                  |    blah   +
|                  |    blah   +
+------------------+-----------+

================PAGE BREAK==============

+------------------+-----------+
|     Col 1 head   | Col 2 head+
+------------------+-----------+
|                  |    blah   +
|                  |    blah   +
|                  |    blah   +
+------------------+-----------+
|                  |   yadda   +
|   second group   |   yadda   +
|                  |   yadda   +
+------------------+-----------+


Clay Helberg                           http://www.execpc.com/~helberg/
SPSS Documentation                      chelberg at spss.com
Speaking only for myself....

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