On Fri 17 Jun 2011, Kip Warner wrote:

I have a table with four columns. The first three are fine as fixed width and fairly narrow, but I need the fourth one to be larger to accommodate text that can wrap for two or more lines.

How would I go about doing this? I'm guessing something needs to said in the \starttable[|c|c|c|c|] last field, but I can't figure out what from the documentation. The syntax is a little elusive.

I'm afraid I can't help directly with the Table module you're using, but you may want to consider using one of ConTeXt's newer table modules: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Tables_Overview lists the Table module as ‘deprecated’. I tend to use ‘natural tables’ ( http://wiki.contextgarden.net/TABLE ) for most things -- they're full-featured and well documented. There is also Tabulate -- fewer features and less documentation, but easier for quick jobs: \starttext \starttabulate[|l|p(5cm)|] \NC short \NC \raggedright A rather lengthier piece of text which will require more than one line when typeset within a narrow table column \NC\NR \stoptabulate \stoptext Hope this helps, Pont

On 18-6-2011 7:33, Kip Warner wrote:

Hey list,

I have a table with four columns. The first three are fine as fixed width and fairly narrow, but I need the fourth one to be larger to accommodate text that can wrap for two or more lines.

How would I go about doing this? I'm guessing something needs to said in the \starttable[|c|c|c|c|] last field, but I can't figure out what from the documentation. The syntax is a little elusive.

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