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