LO 6.4.5.2 - Fedora 32
I am presently on a sophisticated table layout viz. page/column break. Author requirements are:
- some groups of rows are to be considered as an atomic set (no page/column break inside this group)
- the whole table can be split across pages/columns (but only at predetermined positions)
- the table heading must be repeated at head of every page/columns
Considering the first requirement, the table can’t use the “simple” Text Flow
features (allow table break + allow row break).
I thus split the job between:
- a single “outer table” with a heading row and a “running” row of merged cells (a single cell across the width of the table)
- as many tables as atomic sets inserted in “running” rows
The outer table takes care of repeating heading and its rows are not allowed to break.
Unfortunately, I got lost in the middle of my experiment and I no longer know for sure how many “running” rows there are in the outer table because, to give the illusion of a single table, “separating paragraphs” (the ones usually following a table) have been suppressed and padding space in the outer table is set to 0. The usual table boundaries are useless due to the complexity of the nested table structure.
I want to check that I have a single nested table per outer row. How can I get the present number of rows in a table?
Would putting the cursor at the end of what I think to be the last cell of a nested table and pressing Alt
+Return
be a reliable indicator that I am really at end of a row in the “outer table”?
Table
>Properties
only shows the number of columns.