linebreaks and cell width in xtables
Dear list, I have the following sample: \starttext \startxtable[option=stretch] \startxrow \startxcell One line And another \stopxcell \startxcell This breaks the following cell. \stopxcell \stopxrow \startxrow \startxcell This cell has multiple lines. Vertical spacing is wrong. \stopxcell \startxcell What am I missing? \stopxcell \stopxrow \stopxtable \stoptext I don’t know whether this is a bug. My question is the following: how can I get a new line inside a cell? I have another question: how can I force that both rows (in this case two) have the same width? Many thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk
On 2014-05-04 12:30, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
Dear list,
I have the following sample:
\starttext \startxtable[option=stretch] \startxrow \startxcell One line
And another \stopxcell \startxcell This breaks the following cell. \stopxcell \stopxrow \startxrow \startxcell This cell has multiple lines. Vertical spacing is wrong. \stopxcell \startxcell What am I missing? \stopxcell \stopxrow \stopxtable \stoptext
I don’t know whether this is a bug. My question is the following: how can I get a new line inside a cell?
I have another question: how can I force that both rows (in this case two) have the same width?
Many thanks for your help,
Pablo Any of the following will work here. Which is or are idiomatic I will leave for others to say.
This cell has multiple lines.\\ This cell has multiple lines.\par This cell has multiple lines.\blank[none] -- Rik Kabel
On 05/04/2014 08:27 PM, Rik Kabel wrote:
Any of the following will work here. Which is or are idiomatic I will leave for others to say.
This cell has multiple lines.\\
This cell has multiple lines.\par
This cell has multiple lines.\blank[none]
Many thanks for your reply, Rik. I’m afraid none of them works. Here is my sample: \starttext \startxtable[option=stretch] \startxrow \startxcell aaa\blank[none]aaa \stopxcell \startxcell \ConTeXt\ \contextversion \stopxcell \stopxrow \startxrow \startxcell This cell has multiple lines. Vertical spacing is wrong. \stopxcell \startxcell What am I missing? \stopxcell \stopxrow \stopxtable \stoptext I’m using latest beta (2014.04.28 23:24) and the issue happens when there is text before and after the break. Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk
On 2014-05-04 15:46, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
On 05/04/2014 08:27 PM, Rik Kabel wrote:
Any of the following will work here. Which is or are idiomatic I will leave for others to say.
This cell has multiple lines.\\
This cell has multiple lines.\par
This cell has multiple lines.\blank[none] Many thanks for your reply, Rik.
I’m afraid none of them works. Here is my sample:
\starttext \startxtable[option=stretch] \startxrow \startxcell aaa\blank[none]aaa \stopxcell \startxcell \ConTeXt\ \contextversion \stopxcell \stopxrow \startxrow \startxcell This cell has multiple lines. Vertical spacing is wrong. \stopxcell \startxcell What am I missing? \stopxcell \stopxrow \stopxtable \stoptext
I’m using latest beta (2014.04.28 23:24) and the issue happens when there is text before and after the break.
Pablo Pablo,
With your example, I get which shows a problem in row 2. When I add \\ to the first line of text in row 2 column 1, as shown here \starttext \startxtable[option=stretch] \startxrow \startxcell aaa\blank[none]aaa \stopxcell \startxcell \ConTeXt\ \contextversion \stopxcell \stopxrow \startxrow \startxcell This cell has multiple lines.\\ Vertical spacing is wrong. \stopxcell \startxcell What am I missing? \stopxcell \stopxrow \stopxtable \stoptext I get which perhaps has some faults in the vertical spacing, but is much better than the original. The spacing can be improved by specifying [align=lohi] for that cell. I get the same result with the other two methods I suggested. Is there a reason that you cannot use one of these methods in row 2 as you do in row 1? Perhaps we would all benefit from an obeylines alignment option? -- Rik Kabel
On 2014-05-04 15:46, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
On 05/04/2014 08:27 PM, Rik Kabel wrote:
Any of the following will work here. Which is or are idiomatic I will leave for others to say.
This cell has multiple lines.\\
This cell has multiple lines.\par
This cell has multiple lines.\blank[none] Many thanks for your reply, Rik.
I’m afraid none of them works. Here is my sample:
\starttext \startxtable[option=stretch] \startxrow \startxcell aaa\blank[none]aaa \stopxcell \startxcell \ConTeXt\ \contextversion \stopxcell \stopxrow \startxrow \startxcell This cell has multiple lines. Vertical spacing is wrong. \stopxcell \startxcell What am I missing? \stopxcell \stopxrow \stopxtable \stoptext
I’m using latest beta (2014.04.28 23:24) and the issue happens when there is text before and after the break.
Pablo Pablo,
With your example, I get which shows a problem in row 2. When I add \\ to the first line of text in row 2 column 1, as shown here \starttext \startxtable[option=stretch] \startxrow \startxcell aaa\blank[none]aaa \stopxcell \startxcell \ConTeXt\ \contextversion \stopxcell \stopxrow \startxrow \startxcell This cell has multiple lines.\\ Vertical spacing is wrong. \stopxcell \startxcell What am I missing? \stopxcell \stopxrow \stopxtable \stoptext I get which perhaps has some faults in the vertical spacing, but is much better than the original. The spacing can be improved by specifying [align=lohi] for that cell. I get the same result with the other two methods I suggested. Is there a reason that you cannot use one of these methods in row 2 as you do in row 1? Perhaps we would all benefit from an obeylines alignment option? -- Rik Kabel (resent from list address, please excuse duplicates)
On 05/05/2014 12:20 AM, Rik Kabel wrote:
[...] which shows a problem in row 2. When I add \\ to the first line of text in row 2 column 1, as shown here [...] which perhaps has some faults in the vertical spacing, but is much better than the original. The spacing can be improved by specifying [align=lohi] for that cell.
Many thanks for your reply, Rik. Now I got what I was doing wrong.
I get the same result with the other two methods I suggested. Is there a reason that you cannot use one of these methods in row 2 as you do in row 1?
Well, that was a minimal sample. I have a document that has many over 50 tables. If that means that I have to add lines in every row that suffers from this feature, I think I might be doing something wrong. There is a more basic problem not shown in the samples: cells can contain paragraphs with multiple lines (such as "\input zapf"). Is the user supposed to insert line breaks manually in paragraphs containing multiple lines?
Perhaps we would all benefit from an obeylines alignment option?
Sorry, but I cannot refrain from asking: isn’t this a bug? Many thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk
On 5/5/2014 4:48 PM, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
On 05/05/2014 12:20 AM, Rik Kabel wrote:
[...] which shows a problem in row 2. When I add \\ to the first line of text in row 2 column 1, as shown here [...] which perhaps has some faults in the vertical spacing, but is much better than the original. The spacing can be improved by specifying [align=lohi] for that cell.
Many thanks for your reply, Rik.
Now I got what I was doing wrong.
I get the same result with the other two methods I suggested. Is there a reason that you cannot use one of these methods in row 2 as you do in row 1?
Well, that was a minimal sample. I have a document that has many over 50 tables. If that means that I have to add lines in every row that suffers from this feature, I think I might be doing something wrong.
There is a more basic problem not shown in the samples: cells can contain paragraphs with multiple lines (such as "\input zapf"). Is the user supposed to insert line breaks manually in paragraphs containing multiple lines?
Perhaps we would all benefit from an obeylines alignment option?
Sorry, but I cannot refrain from asking: isn’t this a bug?
more a side effects of trying to find some optimal width automatically ... i've tried to 'fix' it in the next beta but who knows what else shows up ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
On 05/05/2014 08:45 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
On 5/5/2014 4:48 PM, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
[...] Sorry, but I cannot refrain from asking: isn’t this a bug?
more a side effects of trying to find some optimal width automatically ... i've tried to 'fix' it in the next beta but who knows what else shows up
Many thanks for your reply and the fix, Hans. Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk
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