Am 12.05.2011 um 20:10 schrieb Roger Mason:

Hi Wolfgang,

Wolfgang Schuster writes:

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You need parentheses!

… | l w(5cm) | …

Many thanks.

If I may presume on your patience a little more...

I now have: \starttable[| l s1 | s1 l | s0 lp w(10cm) | s0 l |]

However, the entries in column 3 have line-feeds roughly every two words and the 10 cm column width is not being used, so there's a huge gap to column 4.

Don’t mix “p” and “w” keywords, “w” sets the width for a cell where you don’t want a line break in the cell while “p” is for paragraphs where you can set the width of the cell with “p(10cm)”. Wolfgang

Am 12.05.2011 um 20:41 schrieb Roger Mason:

Wolfgang Schuster writes:

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Don’t mix “p” and “w” keywords, “w” sets the width for a cell where you don’t want a line break in the cell while “p” is for paragraphs where you can set the width of the cell with “p(10cm)”.

Many thanks Wolfgang. I've been using Context exclusively now for several years, I'm amazed I never needed to tweak table settings before.

When you need a certain layout for a table you should consider switching to natural tables but a few of the nice features (e.g. loffset and the setups key) are only available in mkiv. Wolfgang