Hi Carsten, hi all

Are there reasons to only narrow but not to widen columns?

I would like the behavior `fixed width' like

| year | boss                          | facility management assistant  |
|      | <30>                          | <30>                           |
|------+-------------------------------+--------------------------------|
| 2009 | Alice                         | Bob                            |

but with the current implementation get

| year | boss  | facility management assistant |
|      | <30>  | <30>                          |
|------+-------+-------------------------------|
| 2009 | Alice | Bob                           |

which widens the column only if there is too less space left for the column content.

As a comparison I can imagine four variants:
<..40>   : `maximum width' (what <40> is today)
<30>     : `fixed width'
<20..>   : `minimum width' (no narrowing)
<20..40> : `width range' (minimum 20, up to 40, narrowing if even longer)

The most commonly used spreadsheet applications offer just one single variant out of the above four (right?) and it is `fixed width'. My vote for org-table would be the same: That it should support `fixed width' and that this is sufficient as the only variant. What is the opinion of other users?

- Michael


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