Olsson, Kristina wrote: > Hi, > > I have a document with two columns per page, and I would like the table > cells to be aligned horizontally. > Above the table there is a heading which goes across the columns. If I > place the marker for the table immediately after the heading, the entire > table will only show in the left column. If I place the marker at the > line below the heading, the table appears in both columns but the table > cells are not aligned horizontally. > Does anyone know how to align the table cells horizontally (so that the > horizontal table cell lines are placed in line with each other) when > using a 2-column layout? > I'm grateful for help.
If I understand you correctly (and I'm sorry, but your question is not really clear), your heading is far enough down the page that there is just barely room below it in the left column for the entire table, and if you insert another body pgf below the heading, the table is then forced to flow into the second column. However, the top of the table in the left column appears below the empty body pgf, whereas the continuation in the right column appears level with it. If that is the problem, you can fix it like this: 1. Create a new pgf tag called (e.g.) TableAnchor, identical to your body tag but with a negative Space Below of some number larger than the font size, e.g., -12pt for a 10pt font. (Some people also change the font colour to a bright colour so the pilcrow is easy to find and identify later. The colour is irrelevant because there is never any text in this tag.) 2. Put your table anchor in its own paragraph tagged TableAnchor. 3. Change the Space Above in your Table tag to the same negative number you used in step one. The negative spaces below and above cancel each other out, and your table will align at the top of the tagged pgf, rather than below it. Now if your table flows into a second column, the tops of the two sections will be even. HTH, -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited Toronto, ON, Canada +1 (416) 491-7340 x 325 srogers phoenix-geophysics com "Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons." --Popular Mechanics, 1949 Get Firefox! http://tinyurl.com/8q9c5
