From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: linebreaks and cell width in xtables
Date: Mon, 05 May 2014 20:45:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5367DC60.2020603@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5367A4AE.3050104@gmx.es>
On 5/5/2014 4:48 PM, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
> On 05/05/2014 12:20 AM, Rik Kabel wrote:
>> [...]
>> which shows a problem in row 2. When I add \\ to the first line of text
>> in row 2 column 1, as shown here
>> [...]
>> which perhaps has some faults in the vertical spacing, but is much
>> better than the original. The spacing can be improved by specifying
>> [align=lohi] for that cell.
>
> Many thanks for your reply, Rik.
>
> Now I got what I was doing wrong.
>
>> I get the same result with the other two methods I suggested. Is there a
>> reason that you cannot use one of these methods in row 2 as you do in row 1?
>
> Well, that was a minimal sample. I have a document that has many over 50
> tables. If that means that I have to add lines in every row that suffers
> from this feature, I think I might be doing something wrong.
>
> There is a more basic problem not shown in the samples: cells can
> contain paragraphs with multiple lines (such as "\input zapf"). Is the
> user supposed to insert line breaks manually in paragraphs containing
> multiple lines?
>
>> Perhaps we would all benefit from an obeylines alignment option?
>
> Sorry, but I cannot refrain from asking: isn’t this a bug?
more a side effects of trying to find some optimal width automatically
... i've tried to 'fix' it in the next beta but who knows what else
shows up
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-05 18:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-04 16:30 Pablo Rodriguez
2014-05-04 18:27 ` Rik Kabel
2014-05-04 19:46 ` Pablo Rodriguez
2014-05-04 22:19 ` Rik
2014-05-04 22:20 ` Rik Kabel
2014-05-05 14:48 ` Pablo Rodriguez
2014-05-05 18:45 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2014-05-05 19:01 ` Pablo Rodriguez
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