About paragraph columns in table environment
Hello all!
I've tried to fit wide table (with paragraphs and vertical lines) into
page width. Following example don't work as expected:
\SetTableToWidth{\textwidth}
\starttable[|p|p|]
\HL
\VL foo foo foo foo foo foo \VL bar bar bar bar bar bar \VL\AR
\HL
\stoptable
Text in columns formatted as if table was not widened. What did I miss here?
BTW, how to fit text into a small box if I don't care about where word
breaks?
Thanks.
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Radhelorn
Radhelorn wrote:
Hello all!
I've tried to fit wide table (with paragraphs and vertical lines) into page width. Following example don't work as expected:
\SetTableToWidth{\textwidth} \starttable[|p|p|] \HL \VL foo foo foo foo foo foo \VL bar bar bar bar bar bar \VL\AR \HL \stoptable
Text in columns formatted as if table was not widened. What did I miss here?
table is not that clever -) \SetTableToWidth{\textwidth} \starttable[|p(.45\textwidth)|p(.45\textwidth)|] \HL \VL foo foo foo foo foo foo \VL bar bar bar bar bar bar \VL\AR \HL \stoptable \stoptext
BTW, how to fit text into a small box if I don't care about where word breaks?
can you explain that a bit more? Hans
Hans Hagen wrote:
Radhelorn wrote:
\SetTableToWidth{\textwidth}
\starttable[|p(.45\textwidth)|p(.45\textwidth)|] \HL \VL foo foo foo foo foo foo \VL bar bar bar bar bar bar \VL\AR \HL \stoptable
Thanks. Now it works like expected.
BTW, how to fit text into a small box if I don't care about where word breaks?
can you explain that a bit more?
Something like this:
________________
| There are so |
| me rather lo |
| ng titles th |
| a needs to b |
| e typeset. |
----------------
Originally I wanted this in table headers and such things.
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Radhelorn
Radhelorn wrote:
Something like this: ________________ | There are so | | me rather lo | | ng titles th | | a needs to b | | e typeset. | ----------------
only for stupid text: \def\HowStrange#1{#1\ifx#1\blankspace\else\allowbreak\fi} \framed [width=2cm,align={normal,verytolerant,stretch}] {\handletokens There are some rather long titles that needs to be typeset.\with\HowStrange} you're not serious about this are you? anyhow, a wikiable example Hans
Hans Hagen wrote:
Radhelorn wrote:
Something like this: ________________ | There are so | | me rather lo | | ng titles th | | a needs to b | | e typeset. | ----------------
only for stupid text:
\def\HowStrange#1{#1\ifx#1\blankspace\else\allowbreak\fi}
\framed [width=2cm,align={normal,verytolerant,stretch}] {\handletokens There are some rather long titles that needs to be typeset.\with\HowStrange}
you're not serious about this are you?
I'm curious as well. What is this for?
anyhow, a wikiable example
A similar problem&solution, for verbatim text, is already in the wiki: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Verbatim_with_line_breaks Cheers, Taco
Taco Hoekwater wrote:
Hans Hagen wrote:
Radhelorn wrote:
Something like this: ________________ | There are so | | me rather lo | | ng titles th | | a needs to b | | e typeset. | ----------------
only for stupid text:
\def\HowStrange#1{#1\ifx#1\blankspace\else\allowbreak\fi}
\framed [width=2cm,align={normal,verytolerant,stretch}] {\handletokens There are some rather long titles that needs to be typeset.\with\HowStrange}
you're not serious about this are you?
I'm curious as well. What is this for?
actually, this years pragma new-year card uses something like this but a bit more advanced (you've seen it -) Hans
Taco Hoekwater wrote:
Hans Hagen wrote:
Radhelorn wrote:
________________ | There are so | | me rather lo | | ng titles th | | a needs to b | | e typeset. | ----------------
you're not serious about this are you?
I'm curious as well. What is this for?
It can be used in small cards or something like that. I've tried to fit wide table in a narrow paper. I was making electronic version of printed document and can assure you that original design was even more strange (to my tastes of course).
anyhow, a wikiable example
I'll look into it a little later.
A similar problem&solution, for verbatim text, is already in the wiki:
Well maybe I should give this a try too ;-).
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Radhelorn
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