About paragraph columns in table environment

About paragraph columns in table environment

[Radhelorn]

Hello all!

I've tried to fit wide table (with paragraphs and vertical lines) into 
page width. Following example don't work as expected:

\SetTableToWidth{\textwidth}
\starttable[|p|p|]
\HL
\VL foo foo foo foo foo foo \VL bar bar bar bar bar bar \VL\AR
\HL
\stoptable

Text in columns formatted as if table was not widened. What did I miss here?

BTW, how to fit text into a small box if I don't care about where word 
breaks?

Thanks.


-- 
Radhelorn <radhelorn@mail.ru>

Re: About paragraph columns in table environment

[Hans Hagen]

Radhelorn wrote:

> Hello all!
>
> I've tried to fit wide table (with paragraphs and vertical lines) into 
> page width. Following example don't work as expected:
>
> \SetTableToWidth{\textwidth}
> \starttable[|p|p|]
> \HL
> \VL foo foo foo foo foo foo \VL bar bar bar bar bar bar \VL\AR
> \HL
> \stoptable
>
> Text in columns formatted as if table was not widened. What did I miss 
> here?

table is not that clever -)

\SetTableToWidth{\textwidth}

\starttable[|p(.45\textwidth)|p(.45\textwidth)|]
\HL
\VL foo foo foo foo foo foo \VL bar bar bar bar bar bar \VL\AR
\HL
\stoptable

\stoptext

>
> BTW, how to fit text into a small box if I don't care about where word 
> breaks?
>
can you explain that a bit more?

Hans

Re: About paragraph columns in table environment

[Radhelorn]

Hans Hagen wrote:
> Radhelorn wrote:
> 
> \SetTableToWidth{\textwidth}
> 
> \starttable[|p(.45\textwidth)|p(.45\textwidth)|]
> \HL
> \VL foo foo foo foo foo foo \VL bar bar bar bar bar bar \VL\AR
> \HL
> \stoptable
> 

Thanks. Now it works like expected.

> 
>>
>> BTW, how to fit text into a small box if I don't care about where word 
>> breaks?
>>
> can you explain that a bit more?
> 

Something like this:
________________
| There are so |
| me rather lo |
| ng titles th |
| a needs to b |
| e typeset.   |
----------------

Originally I wanted this in table headers and such things.

-- 
Radhelorn <radhelorn@mail.ru>

Re: About paragraph columns in table environment

[Hans Hagen]

Radhelorn wrote:

>>
>
> Something like this:
> ________________
> | There are so |
> | me rather lo |
> | ng titles th |
> | a needs to b |
> | e typeset.   |
> ----------------


only for stupid text:

\def\HowStrange#1{#1\ifx#1\blankspace\else\allowbreak\fi}

\framed
  [width=2cm,align={normal,verytolerant,stretch}]
  {\handletokens There are some rather long titles that needs to be 
typeset.\with\HowStrange}

you're not serious about this are you?

anyhow, a wikiable example

Hans

Re: About paragraph columns in table environment

[Taco Hoekwater]

Hans Hagen wrote:
> Radhelorn wrote:
> 
>>>
>>
>> Something like this:
>> ________________
>> | There are so |
>> | me rather lo |
>> | ng titles th |
>> | a needs to b |
>> | e typeset.   |
>> ----------------
> 
> 
> 
> only for stupid text:
> 
> \def\HowStrange#1{#1\ifx#1\blankspace\else\allowbreak\fi}
> 
> \framed
>  [width=2cm,align={normal,verytolerant,stretch}]
>  {\handletokens There are some rather long titles that needs to be 
> typeset.\with\HowStrange}
> 
> you're not serious about this are you?

I'm curious as well. What is this for?

> anyhow, a wikiable example

A similar problem&solution, for verbatim text, is already in the wiki:

   http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Verbatim_with_line_breaks

Cheers,

Taco

Re: About paragraph columns in table environment

[Hans Hagen]

Taco Hoekwater wrote:

> Hans Hagen wrote:
>
>> Radhelorn wrote:
>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Something like this:
>>> ________________
>>> | There are so |
>>> | me rather lo |
>>> | ng titles th |
>>> | a needs to b |
>>> | e typeset.   |
>>> ----------------
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> only for stupid text:
>>
>> \def\HowStrange#1{#1\ifx#1\blankspace\else\allowbreak\fi}
>>
>> \framed
>>  [width=2cm,align={normal,verytolerant,stretch}]
>>  {\handletokens There are some rather long titles that needs to be 
>> typeset.\with\HowStrange}
>>
>> you're not serious about this are you?
>
>
> I'm curious as well. What is this for?
>
actually, this years pragma new-year card uses something like this but a 
bit more advanced (you've seen it -)

Hans

Re: About paragraph columns in table environment

[Radhelorn]

Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> Hans Hagen wrote:
> 
>> Radhelorn wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> ________________
>>> | There are so |
>>> | me rather lo |
>>> | ng titles th |
>>> | a needs to b |
>>> | e typeset.   |
>>> ----------------
>>
>>
>> you're not serious about this are you?
> 
> 
> I'm curious as well. What is this for?

It can be used in small cards or something like that.

I've tried to fit wide table in a narrow paper. I was making electronic 
version of printed document and can assure you that original design was 
even more strange (to my tastes of course).

> 
>> anyhow, a wikiable example

I'll look into it a little later.

> 
> 
> A similar problem&solution, for verbatim text, is already in the wiki:
> 
>   http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Verbatim_with_line_breaks
> 

Well maybe I should give this a try too ;-).

-- 
Radhelorn <radhelorn@mail.ru>