I've been trying out xtables and reading the manual, some things I can't find how to do (or if it's possible on xtables): 1. How to align whole columns. It seems I have to add [align=middle] to each cell I want to have centered in a raggedright aligned table. In tabulate you can use [|l|c|] to do this, is it possible in xtables? Seems weird if it's not. Or did I miss something? 2. I know how to use [option=stretch] to fill the textwidth, but can I make specific columns "tight", so they don't get stretched beyond their content? 3. When I use [option=tight] sometimes columns are narrowed so much as to break a line of 4 or 5 words. MWE: %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \startplacetable[location=none] %\startxtable[align={middle,lohi},option=tight] % This makes the first column too narrow. Lines are not that long \startxtable[align={middle,lohi}] \startxtablehead[head] \startxrow \startxcell[align=right] \strong{Concepto}\crlf\small{Cifras en miles de pesos} \stopxcell \startxcell \strong{Dato} \stopxcell \stopxrow \stopxtablehead \startxtablebody[body] \startxrow \startxcell[align=right] Bono \stopxcell \startxcell Ordinario \stopxcell \stopxrow \startxrow \startxcell[align=right] Valor nominal \stopxcell \startxcell \$100\,000 \stopxcell \stopxrow \startxrow \startxcell[align=right] Tasa cupón - periodicidad anual \stopxcell \startxcell 12,50\,\letterpercent{} \stopxcell \stopxrow \startxrow \startxcell[align=right] Cupón \stopxcell \startxcell \$12\,500 \stopxcell \stopxrow \startxrow \startxcell[align=right] Vencimiento en años \stopxcell \startxcell 5 \stopxcell \stopxrow \startxrow \startxcell[align=right] Tasa de negociación (tasa de mercado) \stopxcell \startxcell 12,50\,\letterpercent{} \stopxcell \stopxrow \startxrow \startxcell[align=right] Precio de venta \stopxcell \startxcell \$100\,000 \stopxcell \stopxrow \startxrow \startxcell[align=right] Costos de transacción/ precio de venta \stopxcell \startxcell 0 \stopxcell \stopxrow \startxrow \startxcell[align=right] Fecha de emisión \stopxcell \startxcell 30-mar-X6 \stopxcell \stopxrow \stopxtablebody \stopxtable \stopplacetable %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Can I make this table to be "tight" but only so much as to allow "short lines" (i.e: lines that don't make the table go wider than textwidth). I can do it with manual width, but wondering if it's possible. Thank you . -- Andrés Conrado Montoya Andi Kú andresconrado@gmail.com http://sesentaycuatro.com http://messier87.com http://chiquitico.org ---------------------------------------- Los fines no justifican los medios, porque la medida verdadera de nuestro carácter está dada por los medios que estamos dispuestos a utilizar, no por los fines que proclamamos. ---------------------------------------- “You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch.’” — Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell