On 2014-06-24 08:03, Hans Hagen wrote:
On
6/23/2014 10:50 PM, Peter Münster wrote:
On Mon, Jun 23 2014, Peter Münster wrote:
No solution, just a smaller MWE:
Yet smaller, but I don't know, if it's still the same problem:
\starttext
\bTABLE
\bTR \bTD A xxxxxxxxxxxxx \eTD \bTD[nc=2] A \eTD \eTR
\eTABLE
\stoptext
after lots of experiments (adapting the width guesser) i decided
to stick to a simple check and warning; the first column will be
ok but the second one to wide (btw, one solution was to set
maxwidth to a large value)
catching all possible errors in coding a table is undoable (plus
unpredictable)
(xtables work ok btw)
Hans
Hans,
While xtable works fine for Peter's reduced MWE, it does not handle
the problem first presented, which includes an alignment character
for columns of mark-separated numbers. By my understanding of how
xtable works, I suspect that it will not be able to handle this
requirement.
In this case I can get by with explicitly setting column widths as
needed to prevent the error. I have been using the following code to
get the width of what appears to be the widest element in a column:
%% This gets the width of simple things; from Hans
on the mailing
%% list
http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2007/024390.html
%% example usage: \SetWidthOf{\ColContent}\to\ColContentWidth\relax
%% or: \SetWidthOf{Column Content}\to\ContentWidth\relax
\def\SetWidthOf#1\to#2%
{\bgroup
\setbox\scratchbox\hbox{#1}%
\expanded{\egroup\def\noexpand#2{\the\wd\scratchbox}}}
Is TABLE with explicit column widths the best solution for now on
tables that require number alignment, or do you recommend another
table mechanism?
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Rik