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Article #833Re: Trouble with \halign and \multispan
From: Donald Arseneau
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1992 10:35
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1992 10:35
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In article <1992Aug5.020826.11539@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>, mjm@spekl.as.arizona.edu (Mark McCaughrean) writes...
>I'm having trouble getting equally spaced aligned columns using
>\halign in UNIX TeX 3.14t3. As soon as I use \multispan to write
>a title, the last column always ends up padded with more space.
> ...
>\tabskip=0pt plus 1fil
>\halign to\hsize{\hfil#\hfil&\hfil#\hfil&\hfil#\hfil&\hfil#\hfil\cr
The long \multispan adds space to the last column when it is wider
than the total of the corresponding column widths plus the NATURAL SIZE
of the associated \tabskips. The solution is clear: use
\tabskip\hsize minus\hsize
which shrinks to fit instead of stretching to fit.
Donald Arseneau asnd@reg.triumf.ca
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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!decwrl!access.usask.ca!kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca!unixg.ubc.ca!msr.triumf.ca!asnd From: asnd@msr.triumf.ca (Donald Arseneau) Subject: Re: Trouble with \halign and \multispan Message-ID: <5AUG199203355992@msr.triumf.ca> Summary: Let \tabskip shrink, not stretch News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41 Keywords: \tabskip \halign tables \multispan plain TeX Sender: news@unixg.ubc.ca (Usenet News Maintenance) Nntp-Posting-Host: msr.triumf.ca Organization: TRIUMF: Tri-University Meson Facility References: <1992Aug5.020826.11539@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1992 10:35:00 GMT Lines: 17