text alignment in table

text alignment in table

[John Culleton]

Given this table:
\starttabulate[|l|l]
\NC 8:00\emdash noon \NC Ordering/opening/training\NR 
\NC \NC Food~preparation\NC\NR 
\NC Noon\emdash 2:00 PM \NC Luncheon~sales\NR
\NC 2:00 PM\emdash 7:00 PM \NC General administration/baking \NR
\NC \NC Supplier meeting (this is you) \NC\NR 
\stoptabulate
----------------------------
the Word "Food" is left justified in the
column (good) and the word "preparation"
is right justified (bad). The same problem occurs
in the string "Luncheon sales." The glyph "~"
doesn't help.

I also tried the table variation in chapter
twenty-two of  "The TeXbook". That doesn't work
in MKIV. 

My last resort is to introduce a one page pdf from
the InDesign-created pdf. But the must be a
Context solution.


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Re: text alignment in table

[Thomas Floeren]

On 7 Apr 2015, at 17:40, John Culleton wrote:

> Given this table:
> \starttabulate[|l|l]
> \NC 8:00\emdash noon \NC Ordering/opening/training\NR
> \NC \NC Food~preparation\NC\NR
> \NC Noon\emdash 2:00 PM \NC Luncheon~sales\NR
> \NC 2:00 PM\emdash 7:00 PM \NC General administration/baking \NR
> \NC \NC Supplier meeting (this is you) \NC\NR
> \stoptabulate
> ----------------------------
> the Word "Food" is left justified in the
> column (good) and the word "preparation"
> is right justified (bad). The same problem occurs
> in the string "Luncheon sales." The glyph "~"
> doesn't help.
>

A missing `|`

\starttabulate[|l|l|]

-- 
Thomas


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Re: text alignment in table

[Aditya Mahajan]

On Tue, 7 Apr 2015, John Culleton wrote:

> Given this table:
> \starttabulate[|l|l]
> \NC 8:00\emdash noon \NC Ordering/opening/training\NR 
> \NC \NC Food~preparation\NC\NR 
> \NC Noon\emdash 2:00 PM \NC Luncheon~sales\NR
> \NC 2:00 PM\emdash 7:00 PM \NC General administration/baking \NR
> \NC \NC Supplier meeting (this is you) \NC\NR 
> \stoptabulate
> ----------------------------
> the Word "Food" is left justified in the
> column (good) and the word "preparation"
> is right justified (bad). The same problem occurs
> in the string "Luncheon sales." The glyph "~"
> doesn't help.

The syntax is

\starttabulate[|l|l|]
   \NC .. \NC ... \NC \NR
   \NC .. \NC ... \NC \NR
\stoptabulate

You do not have enough \NC-s in all rows.

Aditya
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