Line wrapping in the row of a table

[ViWaldi]

Feature request: enter an attribute for the row definition that the row can be wrapped to the next page.

[pgundlach]

@ViWaldi Could you add a bit more context? For text or for tables? What should happen?

[ViWaldi]

Maybe split the text on line break and then add lines/rows as long as there is still space on the page.

If there are no line break in the text, then do nothing. it's the problem of the user.

[pgundlach]

You want to split a table cell in sub cells?

like

firstpar asdfsad asdfasdfasd asdfasdf asdfadsfasdf
asdfasdf PAREND
secondpar asdfasdfasdf asdfasdfasdf asdfadsf asdfasdf
asdfasdfas

which could break right after PAREND and the secondpar goes into the next table cell?

[neolithos]

Layout suggestion:

+-------+-------------+---------------------+
| first |             | long paragraph cell |
|       |             | long paragraph cell |
|       |             | long paragraph cell |
+-------+-------------+---------------------+
< page break >
+-------+-------------+---------------------+
|        |            | long paragraph cell |
|        | second     | long paragraph cell |
+-------+-------------+---------------------+

Definition:

<tr>
<td valign=top>first</td>
<td valign=bottom>secord</td>
<td breakable=true>long paragraph cell long paragraph cell long paragraph cell long paragraph cell long paragraph cell long paragraph cell</td>
</tr>

for valign middle we have no idea.

Pseudo logic:

if row greater rest of page then
  if test none breakable rows fit then
     split breakable rows in sub cells
  else
     next page
  end
end

We can also chat for more details.

[pgundlach]

I was afraid that you ask for that. Unfortunately this is hard to do. I will leave this Feature request open for a while to think about that. This will probably take me two days to get it right (including testing etc.) so I need a sponsor for that.

[pgundlach]

I am sorry to close this. It won't make much sens to keep it open. I know that a inter cell linebreak would be very nice, but without somebody paying for that, I can't implement it.

[neolithos]

This is okay, we have an equal problem, currently. In our internal tracker it will stay open.

[fsoedjede]

Hello @pgundlach
I'm interested in this feature to have table row overlapping multiple pages work.
After some research and tests, it seems that it have not been implemented yet.
Would you consider picking it now? Depending on the cost, I may be able to pay for it.

Thanks

For context: currently, I'm doing some automated PDF generation (from markdown -> latex -> PDF using TexLive). I've not found a solution to do line wrapping on multiple page in latex. In fact, if the line wraps to next page only, there is a solution but if it goes to a third page, none of the tested package works.
That's why I started considering speedata if it works (I would have markdown -> data.xml -> PDF using Speedata). For now, my tests are inconclusive.