Dear Mojca: I think I see what the problem is. If, instead of typing
>\bTR\bTD > a midaligned parbox: >\eTD\bTD[offset=0pt,width=1em] % 1em wide paragraph > 1 2 3 >\eTD\eTR you type 1\ 2\ 3\ you get what is wanted, namely, 1 2 3 My guess is that there is a built-in bias not to split a line but, rather, give you an overfull \hbox. I "forced" the issue by defining each column to be less than 1em (because "1" is a very narrow char that surely takes less than 1 em), and by adding a typescript space after each number. It might even be possible to eliminate the typescript space and simply define each column to be 0.25em, say, but I did not try it. Best, elena P.S. Let me know if I missed the boat entirely. This is the first issue I attempt to answer. Here is what I ran in LiveContext: \starttext \setupTABLE[frame=on] % only for debugging reasons \setupTABLE[c][each][align=lohi] % to center vertically (any better way?) \bTABLE \bTR\bTD[offset=0pt,width=0.5em] % 1em wide paragraph 1\ 2\ 3\ \eTD\eTR \eTABLE \stoptext >Hello, > >On the wiki (http://contextgarden.net/Vertically_centred) a while ago >someone asked how to do the following in ConTeXt: > >%%%%%% > >\documentclass{article} >\begin{document} >a box with a table: >\fbox{\begin{tabular}[c]{l}1\\2\\3\end{tabular}}\par > >a midaligned parbox: \parbox[c]{1em}{1 2 3} >\end{document} > >%%%%%% > >I don't know if this would be the proper solution, but for the second >case (\parbox[c]{1em}{...} which should make a paragraph 1 em wide and >center the paragraph box vertically) I tried the following: > >%%%%%% > >\setupTABLE[frame=on] % only for debugging reasons >\setupTABLE[c][1,2][align=lohi] % to center vertically (any better way?) >\bTABLE >\bTR\bTD > a midaligned parbox: >\eTD\bTD[offset=0pt,width=1em] % 1em wide paragraph > 1 2 3 >\eTD\eTR >\eTABLE > >%%%%%% > >My ConTeXt version is 2005.06.27. >See the vcenter-context-old.png for the result. > >The strange thing is that the number 2 is still in the first line, >although it is too wide. > >Even more strange, I tried the same on live.contextgarden.net. See >vcenter-context-new.png for the result. > >vcenter-latex.tex is what the result should be. > >------------------------------------------------------------------- > >This also results in a mess on the live.contextgarden.net: > >\bTABLE >\bTR\bTD > {\bTABLE > \bTR\bTD whatever \eTD\eTR > \eTABLE} >\eTD\eTR >\eTABLE > >Mojca _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context