[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 114467] EDITING: Allow repeating of the caption if the object is bigger than 1 page

Fri Dec 29 14:47:55 UTC 2017

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=114467

--- Comment #5 from Regina Henschel <rb.henschel at t-online.de> ---
I support to implement such feature for tables and would like to discuss a
suitable representation in ODF file format with developers, who want to
implement it.

I would restrict this issue to tables because other objects (e.g. linked
frames) are technically different. 

If you search for existing solutions in other applications you will notice a
"longtable" package for TeX, solutions with CSS for HTML-tables and some
workaround and fakes, especially for Word and InDesign.

Problems to be solved:
For captions above a table or in table header rows, the content of the first
page is different from the following ones.
For captions below a table or in table footer rows, the content of the last
page is different from the previous ones.
ODF 1.2 has no concept of repeating footer rows.
In contrast to XSL-FO or HTML, ODF 1.2 has no dedicates "caption" element, but
uses a sequence field to detect a caption for the index of tables.
The solution has to give a proper index of tables.
Watch, whether the OOXML extensions of MS Word provide a solution.

Workaround for LibreOffice (as for MS Word):
Write the caption into a header cell. Write the word "continued" into a
different paragraph, e.g. into another cell of the same header row. Use a shape
to cover the text "continued" on the first page and anchor this shape to
paragraph or character in a nearby cell, which is not in a header row. Set the
position of the shape using the Position&Size dialog for to not move the anchor
and fix position.

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