Re: How to increase left and right padding of cells in a natural table?

["Nicolas Grilly" <nicolas.grilly@garden-paris.com>]

Vit,

Thanks for your quick answer. I tried your "quick" solution (\bTD \hskip1cm
Second movie \hskip2cm\null\eTD) but it doesn't work when cell contains a
multiline text: the left space is only present on the first line and the
right space is only present on the last line.

Andmy natural table have some cells containing two or three lines of text.
Do you have any idea?

Thanks,

Nicolas


PS: If someone is able to develop an extension to natural tables in order to
have parameters like leftoffset, rightoffset, topoffset and bottomoffset in
bTABLE and setupTABLE, my company is interested to pay some hours/days of
development and release the result to ConTeXt project.


Vit wrote:
> >> Vit,
> >>
> >> I just tried your solution, but it doesn't work: it adds 
> space to the 
> >> four side of table cells. But I want to add space ONLY TO LEFT AND 
> >> RIGHT, not to top and bottom, like in the following illustration:
> >>
> >> ---------------------------------
> >> |            My text            |
> >> ---------------------------------
> >>   
> > inside the cell
> > 
> > \leftskip1em \rightskip\leftskip
> 
> Not to four sides but between columns. Rows distance is not affected. 
> But you are right it does not increase distance between text 
> and cell frame. Since natural tables uses \framed construct 
> in each cell and \framed has no 
> 'before'/'after'/'hoffset'/'leftoffset'/'rightoffset' it can 
> not be simply set for whole natural table.
> 
> Solution?
> 
> a) quick:
>       \bTD \hskip1cm Second movie \hskip2cm\null\eTD
>     or with macro:
>     \newdimen\lOffset \lOffset=1cm
>     \newdimen\rOffset \rOffset=2cm
>     \def\myNatTabCell#1{\bTD\hskip\lOffset#1\hskip\rOffset\null\eTD}
>     ...
>     \myNatTabCell{Second movie}
>     ...
> 
> b) systematic
>     create alternative \extframed with 'before', 'after', 
> 'hoffset', 'leftoffset', 'rightoffset', 'voffset', 
> 'topoffset', 'bottomoffset'
> and add switches:
>    \bTABLE[alternative=extframed,leftoffset=1cm,rightoffset=2cm]
> 
> Vit
> 
> Minimal example:
> ---------------------------------------
> \starttext
> \bTABLE[frame=on]
> \bTR
>      \bTH My Title \eTH
>      \bTH Your title \eTH
> \eTR
> \bTR
>      \bTD First try \eTD
>      \bTD Second try \eTD
> \eTR
> \bTR
>      \bTD First movie \eTD
>      \bTD \hskip1cm Second movie \hskip2cm\null\eTD \eTR 
> \eTABLE \stoptext