force columns smaller in Table

force columns smaller in Table

[Paul Tremblay]

Is there a way to force colums to be narrower than the default in the
Table (basic) table environment? 

The first line of my column is:

Amount spent on store modernization by the chains

The columns underneath are all single numbers, meaning they have huges
spaces to the right:

year  Amount spent on store modernization by the chains
===   =================================================

1933  33,000,000
1934  37,000,000

Do I have to use the more sophisticated TABLE module? (I hope not,
because I have already laid out things with Table!)

Thanks

Paul


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Re: force columns smaller in Table

[Hans Hagen]

Paul Tremblay wrote:
> Is there a way to force colums to be narrower than the default in the
> Table (basic) table environment? 
> 
> The first line of my column is:
> 
> Amount spent on store modernization by the chains
> 
> The columns underneath are all single numbers, meaning they have huges
> spaces to the right:
> 
> year  Amount spent on store modernization by the chains
> ===   =================================================
> 
> 1933  33,000,000
> 1934  37,000,000
> 
> Do I have to use the more sophisticated TABLE module? (I hope not,
> because I have already laid out things with Table!)

\starttable [|c|lp(3cm)|]

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Re: force columns smaller in Table

[Paul Tremblay]

On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 12:18:57PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
> From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
> To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
> Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 12:18:57 +0200
> Subject: Re: [NTG-context] force columns smaller in Table
> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317)
> 
> 
> \starttable [|c|lp(3cm)|]
> 

This works, but it had the unintended consequence of making a footnote
in the same column the same width. The footnote on the bottom of the
table looks like:

1 There was a recession in 1938 which
  damp ened sp ending on modernizing.
  Though, the 1938 figure was still above
  the spending of 1936.

Thanks

Paul


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