Re: Bad breaks with Tbl width expand

Hello Valery,

You are right, since the table seems to take up the whole page width by
default. But in case it doesn't for whatever reason, you can force a column
to expand, but not by using width{expand}.

Jeff have responded via private email last year saying to do 2 things:
1. Use @HExpand instead of width{expand}.
2. Use @FirstRow to work around a bug described in Chapter 6.1 page 123 of
the user guide.




On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 11:13 AM, Valery Ushakov <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 23:06:24 +0800, Robin Chew wrote:
>
> > I created the PDF using t.lout (in attachment) with:
> >
> > lout t.lout | ps2pdf - > t.pdf
> >
> > And the resulting PDF shows the text doing unnecessary breaks (as seen in
> > attachment).
> >
> > Removing width{expand} would fix it but I need it in order to keep the
> > table width expanded if a cell contains less text.
>
> Is it really necessary?  Since you have the width of B constrained
>
>   aformat { @Cell A | @Cell width { 3c } B }
>
> A should get all the remaining width.
>
> The bad break comes from the hack that is used for "expand".  It
> really translates internally (tblf) to 40c @Wide and your text is
> wider than that.  So it's first broken into lines for the 40c width
> and then those lines are broken again to fit into whatever width A
> gets.
>
> -uwe
>
>