From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Still struggling with TABLE width
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 22:29:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CA4F33E.7080700@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100930164244.GA4497@gaston.couberia.bzh>
On 30-9-2010 6:42, Peter Münster wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 30 2010, Patrick Gundlach wrote:
>>
>> as the subject says: I am still confused about widths of TABLE tables.
>>
>> \bTD[nc=2]
>> %\hbox{A very very long text in one line, perhaps more}
>> A very very long text in one line, perhaps more
>> \eTD
>
> It's the same issue as with the cow.
> Perhaps a bug-report in the tracker would help...
>
> A workaround could be, to measure first the width of the content (\setbox...
> or similar) and then adjust the width=... options for the table cells.
there is a first pass measuring the natural width and with the whole
table is too wide to fit hsize, the available width is equally
distributed, unless a width is forced
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2010-09-30 16:34 Patrick Gundlach
2010-09-30 16:42 ` Peter Münster
2010-09-30 20:29 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
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