Dear Mojca: I think I see what the problem is. If, instead of typing
\bTR\bTD a midaligned parbox: \eTD\bTD[offset=0pt,width=1em] % 1em wide paragraph 1 2 3 \eTD\eTR
you type 1\ 2\ 3\ you get what is wanted, namely, 1 2 3 My guess is that there is a built-in bias not to split a line but, rather, give you an overfull \hbox. I "forced" the issue by defining each column to be less than 1em (because "1" is a very narrow char that surely takes less than 1 em), and by adding a typescript space after each number. It might even be possible to eliminate the typescript space and simply define each column to be 0.25em, say, but I did not try it. Best, elena P.S. Let me know if I missed the boat entirely. This is the first issue I attempt to answer. Here is what I ran in LiveContext: \starttext \setupTABLE[frame=on] % only for debugging reasons \setupTABLE[c][each][align=lohi] % to center vertically (any better way?) \bTABLE \bTR\bTD[offset=0pt,width=0.5em] % 1em wide paragraph 1\ 2\ 3\ \eTD\eTR \eTABLE \stoptext
Hello,
On the wiki (http://contextgarden.net/Vertically_centred) a while ago someone asked how to do the following in ConTeXt:
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\documentclass{article} \begin{document} a box with a table: \fbox{\begin{tabular}[c]{l}1\\2\\3\end{tabular}}\par
a midaligned parbox: \parbox[c]{1em}{1 2 3} \end{document}
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I don't know if this would be the proper solution, but for the second case (\parbox[c]{1em}{...} which should make a paragraph 1 em wide and center the paragraph box vertically) I tried the following:
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\setupTABLE[frame=on] % only for debugging reasons \setupTABLE[c][1,2][align=lohi] % to center vertically (any better way?) \bTABLE \bTR\bTD a midaligned parbox: \eTD\bTD[offset=0pt,width=1em] % 1em wide paragraph 1 2 3 \eTD\eTR \eTABLE
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My ConTeXt version is 2005.06.27. See the vcenter-context-old.png for the result.
The strange thing is that the number 2 is still in the first line, although it is too wide.
Even more strange, I tried the same on live.contextgarden.net. See vcenter-context-new.png for the result.
vcenter-latex.tex is what the result should be.
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This also results in a mess on the live.contextgarden.net:
\bTABLE \bTR\bTD {\bTABLE \bTR\bTD whatever \eTD\eTR \eTABLE} \eTD\eTR \eTABLE
Mojca