[xep-support] Wrapping Text Around a Table

[W. Eliot Kimber]

Jeremy Kassis wrote:
> I want to insert a table into a flow of text and have the text wrap around
> the table. Is there any way to do that in xml:fo. With XEP?

You can put the table (or any other element) in a side float 
(float="start" or float="end"). Text will flow around the other side and 
bottom.

There is no way in XSL-FO 1.0 to have text automatically wrap on both 
sides of another flow object. [This feature was discussed at some length 
  at one of our face-to-face meetings and we convinced ourselves that 
the behavior had too much potential complexity to be able to address it 
in XSL-FO 1.1.]

> 
> Alternatively, can I create a two-column, two-row table where the top-left,
> bottom-left, and bottom-right cells are all spanned together?

No. You can only span in direction or the other.

But I think a side float should do what you need.

Cheers,

E.
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