spreading natural tables across the page

spreading natural tables across the page

[MASON Peter J]

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I'm trying to have my tables extend across the full (\textwidth) of the page. In LaTeX I was using tabular*, specifying a \textwidth for width, and with approp use of  @{\extracolsep\fill}} bu am not having any success. Basically, in ConteXT I want odd columns to act as labels and be tight fitting but even cols to be the values an NOT be tight-fitting, within a page-wide table, ie some tight, some not. As well, I' d like not to be explicitly specifying column width.

I saw examples using option=stretch somewhere but am not able to get my use of same happening. As well, I' d like not to be explicitly specifying column width. Could a kind person please point me to an example of this usage.

Thanks.


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Re: spreading natural tables across the page

[Wolfgang Schuster]

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2007/4/5, MASON Peter J <Peter_MASON@rta.nsw.gov.au>:
>
>  I'm trying to have my tables extend across the full (\textwidth) of the
> page. In LaTeX I was using tabular*, specifying a \textwidth for width, and
> with approp use of  @{\extracolsep\fill}} bu am not having any success.
> Basically, in ConteXT I want odd columns to act as labels and be tight
> fitting but even cols to be the values an NOT be tight-fitting, within a
> page-wide table, ie some tight, some not. As well, I' d like not to be
> explicitly specifying column width.
>
> I saw examples using option=stretch somewhere but am not able to get my
> use of same happening. As well, I' d like not to be explicitly specifying
> column width. Could a kind person please point me to an example of this
> usage.
>
> Thanks.
>

Hi Peter,

\starttext

\bTABLE[option=stretch]
  \bTR
    \bTD Left \eTD
    \bTD Right \eTD
  \eTR
\eTABLE

\stoptext

Wolfgang

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Re: spreading natural tables across the page

[MASON Peter J]

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Thankyou, but I'm seeking a little more. This example gives columns of equal width. I need to be able to control width for each col, viz some I want tight fitting, others not. Seems that I can do this if I'm explicit about setting width= per column, but with Latex using "tabular*" I didn't need to set width explicitly for each col. Does this make sense? If so then howto?
 
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2007/4/5, MASON Peter J < Peter_MASON@rta.nsw.gov.au>: 

I'm trying to have my tables extend across the full (\textwidth) of the page. In LaTeX I was using tabular*, specifying a \textwidth for width, and with approp use of  @{\extracolsep\fill}} bu am not having any success. Basically, in ConteXT I want odd columns to act as labels and be tight fitting but even cols to be the values an NOT be tight-fitting, within a page-wide table, ie some tight, some not. As well, I' d like not to be explicitly specifying column width. 

I saw examples using option=stretch somewhere but am not able to get my use of same happening. As well, I' d like not to be explicitly specifying column width. Could a kind person please point me to an example of this usage. 

Thanks.


Hi Peter,

\starttext

\bTABLE[option=stretch]
  \bTR
    \bTD Left \eTD
    \bTD Right \eTD
  \eTR
\eTABLE

\stoptext 

Wolfgang
 




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