morerows & ltxtable

[Nikolai Prokoschenko]

Hello, James, Ramon and whoever reads this on the list!

Let me introduce myself to you. My name is Nikolai Prokoschenko. I'm a
22-year-old computer science student from Germany, coming in the ex-USSR.

I have been doing some translation work for the Debian Installer project
and currently became involved into building a better manual - on the
technical side of the process, because I did not like the looks of its
russian translation. Here comes DB2LaTeX, which I've chosen to do the
work on the manual, as Debian needs truly free software to rely on - thus
XSL:FO and FOP have never been an option.

However, I've noticed that the morerows option in tables has not been
supported, so I decided to implement that myself to have good looking
manuals ;) I'm a complete novice to XSLT, however I've managed to
accomplish this task! On the way, I've implemented LTXtable support, so
this one can now also be used.

I'm attaching my current patch to this mail. WARNING: it's not
production-ready! I've made it work, but it can fail without any
particular reason, no guarantees etc., you know the game. It's also
missing consistent naming, good algorithm, documentation and possible
interferes with other things. Please test it and tell me what you think.
I'd pleased if this patch would make it upstream.

I'd also like to know, where DB2LaTeX is heading right now. The project
seems kind of stalled -- is there any plan, todo-list or something like
it?

Thank you and I hope I can help the project to some extent. It would be a
shame if it would die, as documentation under linux would then become a
real mess, even worse than it is now.

PS. James and Ramon, sorry for CC:ing you, but I hope I can reach you this
way, don't know if you're still subscribed to the list.