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TechJames
New Participant
September 24, 2009
Question

Allow table rows to break across pages

  • September 24, 2009
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Hello,

Is there a way to allow an individual table row to break across a page?  In other words, FrameMaker appears to, by default, keep the contents of each row together on a single page.  If the row is too large to fit on a single page, then, apparently, you're out of luck.  There must be some way to override this.

I'm working in FrameMaker 7.2.

Thanks very much.

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Art_Campbell1
Inspiring
September 24, 2009

No, there's not....

You can kludge it by dividing the row into two or three or more segments -- I usually divide along paragraphs, so that each row has just one or two paras -- and use Custom Ruling to eliminate inter-row ruling, so it appears to flow seamlessly.

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    TechJamesAuthor
    New Participant
    September 24, 2009

    Thanks--that makes sense.  I'm dismayed that FrameMaker can't accommodate so mundane a need.

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    Lynne A. Price
    Inspiring
    September 25, 2009

    Just a mildly dissenting opinion … if we're using tables to present chunks of related information in a coherent fashion, then isn't splitting a single chunk across a page-break rather against that idea? There will, of course, be cases where the chunk is relatively long; but my preference would probably be for leaving some white space and keeping the chunk together at the top of the next page.

    My two penn'orth <g>


    … if we're using tables to presentt

    >chunks of related information in a coherent fashion, then isn't splitting

    >a single chunk across a page-break rather against that idea? There will,

    >of course, be cases where the chunk is relatively long; but my preference

    >would probably be for leaving some white space and keeping the chunk

    >together at the top of the next page.

    >My two penn'orth ]]>

    Niels,

    I agree with you, and not only mildly! The point of a table is to keep

    specified materialthe cells in a rownext to each other. If one cell in

    a row is too tall for a page, in addition to dividing the tall cell across

    multiple pages, the user may want to repeat information from other cells on

    all resulting pages. Or perhaps the user may want to divide content of

    other cells as well as that of the tall cell. The user may also want to

    indicate where the long cell should break. Tables are very visually

    oriented, and it makes sense for the user to specify the desiredresults.

    --Lynne

    Lynne A. Price

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