From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/6691 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eckhart =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Guth=F6hrlein?= Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Split and rescale table Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 19:30:31 +0100 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <3C51A447.2020001@uni-bielefeld.de> References: <5.1.0.14.1.20020125184416.02afd5f8@server-1> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035397204 12842 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:20:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:20:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Lukas Kubin , ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: Hans Hagen Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:6691 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:6691 Hans Hagen wrote: >> >> Something maybe similar I would be very interested in: >> Take a given table (or whatever), split it into n balanced columns so >> that the minimum vertical space is needed. And then, take the whole >> thing and put it into a float. > > i fear that this not (easily) possible (but never say never); maybe the > best is to make a separate document and include the pages (possible with > \externalfigure[...][...,page=]) I needed this to typeset a very long table with two very narrow columns, which had to be a float. And indeed, I made an extra document with five columns and included it as \externalfigure. Rather ugly solution, but since applications are rare, the effort for aesthetics would probably be disproportionate (if this is possible). Eckhart