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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2018-09-30 0:25 David Walther
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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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