Aditya Mahajan schrieb am 14.12.18 um 15:18:
On Thu, 13 Dec 2018, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
I am attempting to process html tables that are styled using css, and I have problem with the ‘height’ property. CSS (or rather, the html browser) interprets ‘height’ as if it was a “minheight”, and if the content does not fit, it will just enlarge the height until it does fit.
Needless to say: I want that same functionality from the ConTeXt table I am using to generate the PDF and not end up with text crossing row boundaries. And I cannot figure out how to do it, as neither bTABLE’s \bTD nor xtable’s \startxcell interpret a “minheight" parameter. And whatever I put in “height” becomes the absolute value of the cell height. Did I miss something? I cannot imagine that this problem has not come up before…
AFAIK, there is no option to do this. The closest option is `autowidth=force` for `\framed` etc. which forces `width` to behaves as `maxwidth`. It will be nice to explicitly add both minwidth/minheight and maxwidth/maxheight options to framed, etc.
Adding minwidth is possible without problems but maximum values can be problematic because you have to do a lot of size checks and since framed is used by many other commands you would increase compilation time. The better solution to have maxwidth/maxheight support is to create a new command which uses multiple passes to get the necessary values for both directions (which already happens for natural and extreme tables). Wolfgang