Bringing multi-page floating tables to ODF

[Miklos Vajna]

Hi Regina,

[ Sorry for the slow reply, I was not reading mail last week. ]

On Wed, Jul 19, 2023 at 06:36:41PM +0200, Regina Henschel <rb.henschel at t-online.de> wrote:
> > If you're interested in a setting similar to OOXML's
> > allowTextAfterFloatingTableBreak option, that would be rather
> > per-document, not per-table. And there is some benefit if ODF's matching
> > setting would be also per-document, it simplifies the job of ODF ->
> > OOXML filters. If that direction makes sense, then I guess this would be
> > rather a second boolean in settings.xml, not a 3rd value for the
> > proposed text:may-break-between-pages attribute.
> 
> I dislike to put such information which is essential for the layout of the
> document into the settings.xml. The settings.xml contains only
> implementation-dependent settings. I don't know whether other application
> even read it.

I agree it's not ideal that most of settings.xml is not standardized;
it would be indeed nice to standardize the "wrap on all pages" option.

> Perhaps we can make a compromise? Keep the text:may-break-between-pages as
> boolean attribute at the <draw:frame> element and add a second attribute to
> the style to describe how the text wraps around a <draw:frame> element,
> which spans several pages?
> 
> Thus way the "how-to-wrap" attribute can be stored in the top element of the
> styles hierarchy to have a document wide default which can be used for
> export to OOXML, but still be overwritten by the style of an individual
> frame for ODF.
> 
> I am an advocate of ODF and don't like limiting ODF to the capabilities of
> OOXML.

Yes, I think that's a good compromise. Do you need anything else from me
to file an OASIS proposal for these 2 attributes?

Thanks,

Miklos