I should start by saying that I am familiar with Page Sequence Master
Interleave (PSMI) (http://www.cranesoftwrights.com/resources/psmi/).
Since FO 1.1 processors are rather thin on the ground, this is more of a
theoretical question. I came away from reading the FO 1.1 spec not
knowing if it supports this.
One of the consequences of the way PSMI does its thing is that it isn't a
true float: the landscaped table page is in line with the flow on the
adjacent pages. In practice, that means that the preceding page will not
be full. Certainly, a block cannot straddle the table page (say, a
paragraph starting at the bottom of the preceding page and continuing at
the top of the following page). It's this kind of floating-page table
that I want: the table sits on a page near its reference point ("see Table
1"); it may be rotated; it may extend over more than one page; the regular
flow of the body text is not affected.
XSL 1.1 has flow maps and other enhancements to page sequences, but I
don't know if it knows enough to do what I want. Is this kind of
processing simply beyond the expressiveness that FO 1.1 is capable of?
I'm OK about using XSLT to munge the FO source a la PSMI.
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