Bringing multi-page floating tables to ODF

[Michael Stahl]

On 17/07/2023 08:51, Miklos Vajna wrote:
> Hi Regina,
> 
> On Sun, Jul 16, 2023 at 07:31:22PM +0200, Regina Henschel <rb.henschel at t-online.de> wrote:
>> (4) The interaction with the fo:max-height frame-attribute, the
>> draw:auto-grow-height style-attribute and the style:overflow-behavior
>> style-attribute is missing.
> 
> - the intention is that these frames don't limit their height (you can
>    always create a next page and split), so fo:max-height is not meant to
>    be used if it's OK to split
> 
> - draw:auto-grow-height=false is not meant to be used if it's OK to
>    split, because the idea is to try to grow, then split if you can't
>    grow further
> 
> - style:overflow-behavior: oh, I was not aware of this attribute. This
>    is quite close to the one I propose, though the small (but important)
>    difference is that style:overflow-behavior would create a text frame
>    on the next page with the same position as the original; while a split
>    frame would start at the top of the next page, to minimize the amount
>    of frames necessary to present the text. Also, the dimension can be
>    different on a next page, e.g. 10cm height on current page, then
>    split, then 5cm height (minimum necessary) on the next page.

i was not aware of this either; apparently LO is able to import this 
property since this year commit a925476352b3cb32f6384e7b0fb07e323bb6e64f 
but the interesting value "auto-create-new-frame" isn't implemented.

also it looks to me that "auto-create-new-frame" with these restrictions 
(same position and dimensions) only makes sense for Impress.

apparently this attribute exists in the ODF 1.0 schema, i wonder why it 
was added when it was never implemented in OOo/LO.