Re: [NTG-context] table making ugly column sizes, how to fix?

[David Walther]

I looked at your example.  I ran your example, and on my installation, it has
the same problem as I described.  I have included a PDF file of my original
sample file, and also the PDF generated from your example.   What version of
ConTeXt are you using?

On my installation of context, columns are still coming out "ugly" as you will
see in the PDF t1.pdf.  In t2.pdf you'll see the problem shows up in the table
labelled "Good".  The "Good" refers to the row in bold, not to the row above
it.

David

On Sun, Sep 30, 2018 at 07:44:12PM -0400, Aditya Mahajan wrote:

On Sat, 29 Sep 2018, David Walther wrote:

Full example at the bottom.

I'm making a table.  So far so good.

Every so often I want to make something like a section header.

Regular table rows are like this:

\bTR\bTC \eTC\bTC NightShift \eTC\bTC Tension Lines 146 - 150 \eTC\eTR

For the section headers, I do this, and they look the way I want:

\bTR\bTC 30. \eTC \bTC[nc=2,align=center,style=] \bf{Foo Bar} \eTC\eTR

You can also use

\bTC[nc=2, align=middle, style=bold]

But then the regular lines have ugly line breaks and suddenly the column size of column 3 is squeezed. This shouldn't be, we have the whole page to work with.

Aditya

I don't really see the difference in column sizes between the two cases. See attached (I simplified and cleaned the example a little)

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t1.tex
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t1.pdf
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