Re: @PageMark and @Tbl width=expand option not playing nicely together?

"Valeriy E. Ushakov" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.type-setting.lout
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sat, Jun 02, 2012 at 19:44:27 -0700, Michael Koehmstedt, RenPet wrote:

> For some reason, when I try to use @PageMark prior to a table with
> width=expand, I'm getting an error. Sample program:
> 
> @SysInclude { tbl }
> @SysInclude { doc }
> 
> @Doc @Text @Begin
> 
> @PageMark sig.table

Add // here

> @Tbl
[...]
> Comment out the @PageMark and it runs fine. Comment out the width option
> and it works fine. However, with the @PageMark and width=expand in there
> I'm getting the result:
> 
>  6,1: 80.000c object deleted (too wide for 15.989c paragraph)
> 
> 
> I don't understand why using a @PageMark should effect the output so much.
> Why would it just arbritrarily expand the table to 80 cm wide??

Lout treats input whitespace as paragraph concatenation (&).

-uwe
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