Setting table widths exactly

Setting table widths exactly

[Christopher G D Tipper]

Hi All,

This should be a simple problem but I can't find replicable examples in the English documentation (and I have just about everything).

Basically, I want two tables laid out on the page, one below the other, and I want to make them both the same width, despite the fact that they have different numbers of columns:

+------------------------+
|       |                        |
+------------------------+

+------------------------+
|       |      |           |     |
+------------------------+

My declarations look something like:

\setuplayout
  [width=16cm,
  ...]

\starttext

\starttable[|rw(.5cm)|lw(14cm)|]
...
\stoptable

\blank[4*big]

\starttable[|rw(.5cm)|lw(4.5cm)|lw(4cm)|lw(5.5cm)|]
...
\stoptable

How do I ensure that both tables are exactly the same width of 16cm? ConTeXT seems to have some kind of padding space, but I can't figure how to set this to zero. Note that for both cases all the w(xcm) parameters all add up to exactly 14.5cm (but of course there are a varying number of columns).

I found something like \SetTableToWidth{} in the Getting Started Manual, but I can't find any examples of its use, and the obvious permutations fail to compile.

Thanx,
Christopher

Re: Setting table widths exactly

[Christopher G D Tipper]

Hi all,

Since nobody feels moved to answer this question, can anybody tell me where Michael Wichura's TABLE package is documented? I tried searching CTAN with keywords "wichura" and "table" and drew a blank.

Christopher
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christopher G D Tipper" <ctipper@hol.gr>
To: "ConTeXT Mailing List" <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Sent: Monday, July 17, 2000 2:54 AM
Subject: Setting table widths exactly

> How do I ensure that both tables are exactly the same width of 16cm? ConTeXT seems to have some kind of padding space, but I can't figure how to set this to zero. Note that for both cases all the w(xcm) parameters all add up to exactly 14.5cm (but of course there are a varying number of columns).
> 
> I found something like \SetTableToWidth{} in the Getting Started Manual, but I can't find any examples of its use, and the obvious permutations fail to compile.
> 
> Thanx,
> Christopher
> 

Re: Setting table widths exactly

[Joris Graaumans]

Hello,

At 12:52 PM 7/19/00 +0300, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>> I found something like \SetTableToWidth{} in the Getting Started Manual.

I'm using

\setuptables[width=16cm]

Greetings,

Joris
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