nico wrote:

Hello,

Is it possible to explicitely set the column of the cell defined by a \bTD ... \eTD? I mean that, within a row, it is the number of previous defined cells that determine the current column cell position. What I would like is to be able to omit intermediate empty cells by explicitely setting the column of the defined cell.

I thought that maybe the option "n" could do that, but it does not work as I expected. Here is an example of a table I'd like to be able to write (of course the "n" option can be replaced by anything else):

\bTABLE \bTR\bTD[n=3] a3 \eTD\bTD[n=6] a6 \eTD\eTR \bTR\bTD b1 \eTD\bTD b2 \eTD\bTD b3 \eTD\bTD b4 \eTD\eTR \bTR\bTD c1 \eTD\bTD c2 \eTD\bTD c3 \eTD\bTD c4 \eTD\eTR \bTR\bTD d1 \eTD\bTD[n=5] d5 \eTD\bTD[n=7] d7 \eTD\eTR \bTR\bTD e1 \eTD\bTD[n=3] e3 \eTD\eTR \eTABLE

On benefit of this feature is that it would make the CALS table model (http://www.oasis-open.org/specs/a502.htm) mapping to context quite easier, especially when the table contains row or column spanning.

ah, this should work indeed, but i never tested more than one column skipped, i'll send you a small patch to test Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------