[xep-support] Repeating before and after borders for tables

[Werner Donné]

Would it be the "is-last" trait, which is false for the intermediary
pages?

Werner.

G. Ken Holman wrote:
> At 2004-05-04 11:10 +0200, Werner Donné wrote:
> 
>> When a table, having a before and after border, spans several pages,
>> XEP doesn't repeat them on the intermediary pages. I know the spec
>> doesn't say whether they should be repeated or not.
> 
> 
> Actually, it does, but it is not yet supported by XEP and I do not know 
> when there will be support for it.
> 
>> Would it be
>> possible to leave it as a choice to the user, for example in the
>> form of a property that can be set at initialisation time.
> 
> 
> The user can choose to set the conditionality of the border, and the 
> default for conditionality is (as for all lengths) "discard".
> 
> In the example flow below, setting the conditionality to "retain" is 
> meant to retain the border at the start and end of reference areas as is 
> true for the regions on the page.
> 
> So no changes are needed from a specification perspective ... but I 
> don't know when this will be on the list of changes for XEP.
> 
> ..................... Ken
> 
>     <flow flow-name="frame-body" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format"
>           font-size="20pt">
>       <block>This is a test</block>
>       <table space-before="10cm" border="solid" border-width="1pt"
>              border-width.conditionality="retain">
>         <table-body>
>           <table-row>
>             <table-cell>
>               <block space-before="1em">A test line in block</block>
>               <block space-before="1em">A test line in block</block>
>               <block space-before="1em">A test line in block</block>
>               <block space-before="1em">A test line in block</block>
>               <block space-before="1em">A test line in block</block>
>               <block space-before="1em">A test line in block</block>
>               <block space-before="1em">A test line in block</block>
>               <block space-before="1em">A test line in block</block>
>               <block space-before="1em">A test line in block</block>
>               <block space-before="1em">A test line in block</block>
>               <block space-before="1em">A test line in block</block>
>               <block space-before="1em">A test line in block</block>
>               <block space-before="1em">A test line in block</block>
>               <block space-before="1em">A test line in block</block>
>             </table-cell>
>           </table-row>
>         </table-body>
>       </table>
>     </flow>
> 
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