Re: enattab example

[Peter Rolf <indiego@gmx.net>]

Hi Patrick,

Patrick Gundlach wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I tried the first example from the natrural tables pdf (enattab.pdf),
> and my output looks very compressed. Same on live.contextgarden.net.
> Is this the way it should look like? In contrast to the output of the
> enattab.pdf file.
>

Combined columns are not taken into account when the column maxima are
calculated. You can test that by inserting something very long and
unbreakable. But it's not a very common case, that

- the content of the combined column is shorter than the sum of the
single columns *and*
- the content can't (or shouldn't) be broken

When you think about a table with several overlaping combined columns
and their width dependencies (needed blow up), then you can imagine that
it's not worth the trouble to consider these special cases. It can be
done, but I doubt that the final result looks good (and in the end you
have to edit the width values by hand). But maybe I'm wrong with this
assumption.

Greetings, Peter

> \starttext
> \bTABLE
> \bTR \bTD[nr=3] 1 \eTD \bTD[nc=2] 2/3 \eTD \bTD[nr=3] 4 \eTD \eTR 
> \bTR \bTD 2 \eTD \bTD 3 \eTD \eTR 
> \bTR \bTD 2 \eTD \bTD 3 \eTD \eTR 
> \bTR \bTD[nc=3] 1/2/3 \eTD \bTD 4 \eTD \eTR 
> \bTR \bTD 1 \eTD \bTD 2 \eTD \bTD 3 \eTD \bTD 4 \eTD \eTR 
> \eTABLE
> \stoptext
> 
> 
> Patrick