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Re: Formatting in table going wrong?


From: Dave Baldwin
Subject: Re: Formatting in table going wrong?
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 10:02:05 +0100


On 20 Apr 2007, at 22:15, Jeff Kingston wrote:

Dave Baldwin wrote:

1.  The table appears on page 2 and page 1 is empty.

As Ludovic says, that is because your @Tbl is inside a
floating @Table.

2.  Within Cell C the line spacing between wrapped lines is greater
than that of line breaks I have introduced with @LLP.

I'm not quite sure at this moment what the trouble is here, but it
has something to do with being inside a table rather than being
in ordinary text, and trying to separate one whole paragraph from
the next with a symbol that only works properly when it separates
one line from another.  I should really look into it.  I know some
things but not the whole story.

Anyway, there are a couple of workarounds.  Personally I would
use @LP here anyway, even though the spacing is a little wider.
Or if you really need the effect of @LLP you could descend to a
little raw Lout and replace @LLP by &1rt {} which places an empty
object right-justified and then keeps going in the same paragraph.

Perhaps I should just change the definition of @LLP from //1vx
to &1rt {} and save myself the mental effort.

I tried using @LP instead of @LLP and didn't see any difference.


3.  Within Cell C I wouldn't have expected input line "...Decoder
processes..." to be on different lines.
4.  The AbortStreams line isn't justified.

If you add up the widths of your fixed columns and include margins
you will find that your table's total width is more than the width
available on the page.  This causes your paragraphs to be broken
twice, once to fit each column width and then again later when
the column widths have to be reduced to fit the table onto the page.
This double breaking has caused both of these problems, so you can
fix them both by reducing your column widths.  In this case you have
two narrow columns and one wide one, so it is probably simplest just
to remove the "width { 13.0c }" altogether and let Lout work out how
much space is available for that column.  In fact, for the example
you posted, you would get the best-looking results by removing all
width specifications and letting Lout work out suitable widths.  Of
course, that may not be true of your full table.

I wanted to specify the column widths as I have lots of tables and wanted them all to look consistent. Reducing the width of the last column fixed these problems.

Thanks,

Dave.


Jeff



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