On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 12:29 +1000, Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
> Rick Barnes wrote:
> > ... some of the
> > text in a table's column is arbitrarily broken at 
> > the line breaks. For example "bottom" becomes
> > 
> > botto
> > m
> 
> Ah, I see what you're talking about. The ones I can see all occur 
> in the first column, when there is a long function with no spaces 
> in the function. Something like this:
> 
> *IMLOG10(complex_num
> ber)

Good example, I *fixed* the one that chopped up "bottom".

> The cure is to widen the first column manually.

That's really not acceptable the swx file handled it well.

> Did you see anything like this in the second column? I didn't.

No.

> > There is not even an attempt at proper hyphenation?
> 
> I have the styles defined to not allow hyphenation. You don't 
> want a function hyphenated, as a hyphen could easily be 
> misinterpreted as having meaning.

I agree, hyphenation in this case is not desirable, but what I would
like is a readable linebreak. I added spaces to some of the functions
which fixed the problem (so this occurred more then you see in the
current document). The table textflow dialog does have some new options,
which might be the answer. 

> 
> Cheers, Jean

-- 
Regards,

Rick Barnes
www.nostabo.net

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