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From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: table making ugly column sizes, how to fix?
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2018 19:44:12 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.OSX.2.20.1809301936480.79363@nqv-znpobbx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180930002543.GA15960@reactor-core.org>

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On Sat, 29 Sep 2018, David Walther wrote:

> Full example at the bottom.
>
> I'm making a table.  So far so good.
>
> Every so often I want to make something like a section header.
>
> Regular table rows are like this:
>
> \bTR\bTC \eTC\bTC NightShift \eTC\bTC Tension Lines 146 - 150 \eTC\eTR
>
> For the section headers, I do this, and they look the way I want:
>
> \bTR\bTC 30. \eTC \bTC[nc=2,align=center,style=] \bf{Foo Bar} \eTC\eTR

You can also use

\bTC[nc=2, align=middle, style=bold]

> But then the regular lines have ugly line breaks and suddenly the column 
> size of column 3 is squeezed.  This shouldn't be, we have the whole page to 
> work with.

I don't really see the difference in column sizes between the two cases. 
See attached (I simplified and cleaned the example a little)

Aditya

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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-30  0:25 David Walther
2018-09-30 23:44 ` Aditya Mahajan [this message]
2018-10-02  2:52   ` David Walther
2018-10-02  4:28     ` Aditya Mahajan
2018-10-02  7:44       ` David Walther

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