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From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Setting width of table column
Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 20:54:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7A9E7878-AB78-4438-9777-1B0084EFDB77@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <y65d3jng3ry.fsf@jade.esd.mun.ca>


Am 12.05.2011 um 20:41 schrieb Roger Mason:

> Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com> writes:
> 
>> Don’t mix “p” and “w” keywords, “w” sets the width for a cell where
>> you don’t want a line break in the cell while “p” is for paragraphs
>> where you can set the width of the cell with “p(10cm)”.
> 
> Many thanks Wolfgang.  I've been using Context exclusively now for
> several years, I'm amazed I never needed to tweak table settings before.

When you need a certain layout for a table you should consider switching
to natural tables but a few of the nice features (e.g. loffset and
the setups key) are only available in mkiv.

Wolfgang

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-12 18:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-12 17:34 Roger Mason
2011-05-12 17:39 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2011-05-12 18:10   ` Roger Mason
2011-05-12 18:18     ` Wolfgang Schuster
2011-05-12 18:41       ` Roger Mason
2011-05-12 18:54         ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]
2011-05-13  8:43           ` Roger Mason

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