Table Column Width

Table Column Width

[Kip Warner]

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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.

Thanks,

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Re: Table Column Width

[Pontus Lurcock]

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
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Re: Table Column Width

[Hans Hagen]

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.

replace c by p(4cm)


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Re: Table Column Width

[Kip Warner]

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On Sat, 2011-06-18 at 19:12 +1200, Pontus Lurcock wrote:
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Pont

Thanks Pontus. Natural tables did the trick.

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Re: Table Column Width

[Kip Warner]

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On Sat, 2011-06-18 at 11:27 +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
> replace c by p(4cm)

Thanks Hans. I decided to migrate to the natural tables instead.

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