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Article #102tbl spanned headings on centered columns
From: utzoohenry
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 1982 19:15
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 1982 19:15
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A tbl problem has been found with centering a heading over a pair of columns, where the items in the columns themselves are centered or numeric and the title is wider than the other data in the columns. (I.e. the widths of the columns need to be enlarged to make the title fit.) The extra width needed to make the title fit all gets added to the second column, instead of being evenly distributed among the columns. This messes things up. This is clearly a tbl bug. I don't really have a fix for it: having worked on the insides of tbl before, I'm not keen on tackling it. Individual tables can be kludged adequately by giving an explicit width for the first of the problem columns. It is possible that this problem crops up in broader circumstances than the ones I have described above; I have not investigated it exhaustively.
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From: utzoo!henry Newsgroups: net.bugs.v7 Title: tbl spanned headings on centered columns Article-I.D.: utzoo.2671 Posted: Mon Dec 6 19:15:30 1982 Received: Mon Dec 6 19:15:30 1982 Subject: tbl spanned headings on centered columns Date: Mon, 06 Dec 1982 19:15:30 +0000 Message-ID: <bnews.utzoo.2671>