Re: last natural table column longer

[Vit Zyka <vit.zyka@seznam.cz>]

Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> 
> Hi Vit,
> 
> Vit Zyka wrote:
> 
>> Hello Wizards,
>>
>> my multi page (and multicolumn) table exceeds the last page by 2 rows. 
>> Is there a way to make last column a bit longer? Here is a minimal 
>> example:
> 
> 
> The underlying problem is that you have to enlarge the height of
> page 2. I don't know how that is 'normally' done, but perhaps it
> gives someone else a hint ?

Answer to my own question:

Question:
   Imagine a table (\bTABLE) spanning several pages. Moreover the table 
is inside multicolumn (\startcolumn). How to make some column longer 
(having more rows in some column)? (Column height is given by page height.)

Solution:

1. Make page heigher (as high as the highest column) on every page where 
the table is:
    \setuplayout[lines=..]

2. Insert blank rows to appropriate table places to fill the columns:
    \dorecurse{..}{\bTR\bTD\strut\eTD\eTR}

Remarks:
1. \adaptlayout{page}{height=+...} has limited capability of making page 
heigher (not overcomes footer) so \setuplayout is more flexible.

2. Forsing column break by
      \bTR[after=\column]\bTD...\eTD\eTR
    works but add some spurious space on the top of next column. I was 
not able to remove it even experimenting with my own
      \installcolumnbreakhandler {MUL} {forse} {...}
and using
      \bTR[after={\columnbreak[forse]}]\bTD...\eTD\eTR
Spurious space demonstration:
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\startbuffer[table]
\bTABLE[split=yes]
   \dorecurse{20}{\bTR\bTD cell #1\eTD\eTR}
   \bTR[after={\columnbreak[yes]}]\bTD between \eTD\eTR
   \dorecurse{100}{\bTR\bTD cell #1\eTD\eTR}
\eTABLE
\stopbuffer

\starttext
\startcolumns
   \getbuffer[table]
\stopcolumns
\stoptext
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Vit