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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Vertically stretched split table
Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2014 23:18:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53431625.5020308@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140407145610.375bd5e8@Klapprechner1.site>

On 4/7/2014 2:56 PM, Joshua Krämer wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> if I specify "option=height" with an xtable, a single-page
> table is stretched vertically to fill the whole textheight.  However, I
> need this feature with a multipage table.  In the following example,
> the table on the first page should be stretched, but isn't:
>
> \showframe
> \starttext
> \startxtable [option=height, split=yes]
>    \startxrow
>      \startxcell \input knuth \stopxcell
>      \startxcell \input ward \stopxcell
>    \stopxrow
>    \startxrow
>      \startxcell \input zapf \stopxcell
>      \startxcell \input ward \stopxcell
>    \stopxrow
>    \startxrow
>      \startxcell \input knuth \stopxcell
>      \startxcell \input ward \stopxcell
>    \stopxrow
> \stopxtable
> \stoptext
>
> The table parts on all the pages but the last page should be stretched
> vertically.  If this isn't possible with xtable, is it possible in
> another way?  I hope it is possible without splitting the table by

the height stretch is a special case and not interfaced with the 
splitter (would demand multipass whihc in turn could lead to oscillation)

> hand, because it is a big project with several hundred table pages,
> and splitting by hand would make changes (additional rows) really hard.

just do that in the final version only


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  reply	other threads:[~2014-04-07 21:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-07 12:56 Joshua Krämer
2014-04-07 21:18 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2014-04-07 23:52   ` Joshua Krämer
2014-04-08 12:36     ` frames, hrule, vfill and pagebreaks (was: Vertically stretched split table) Joshua Krämer
2014-04-14 13:24       ` Joshua Krämer

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