[xep-support] floating tables

[Chris Bowditch]

David Pirkle wrote:

> I tried a different approach of wrapping each table with an
> fo:inline-container rather than an fo:float.  With this change, XEP puts
> each table on a separate line like so:
> 
> [  ]
> [ ]
> [   ]
> 
> In other words, the fo:inline-container has no effect.  I tried this
> with a few other processors, and they all gave me the effect of putting
> several tables per line, as I described in my original post.  My
> understanding of fo:inline-container is that it should cause the
> enclosed blocks to be placed inline, which is exactly what I'm trying to
> do with these tables.  If I'm right about that, then XEP has a bug here.

This isn't a bug, but rather a documented limitation. If you look in the 
reference.pdf file distributed with XEP, you will see under the 
Formatting Objects supported by XEP, inline-container is marked as "No".

Chris



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