Spacing between table cell contents and borders?
I've been finishing off a periodic table which I can insert into any classroom document, and am struggling to get the elements' masses to center in the cells. When I get up to numbers such as 123.45 it becomes evident that the cells have a preconceived notion about how far **left** they will place text; this leaves the right side pushing into the border of the adjacent cell. I have reduced the font size to smallest--any more makes it too small. I'd like to get the table to change this padding to something less, but can't find the command despite repeated searches. I guess I don't have the right keywords? The whole table would be set to center alignment. I figure there's got to be a command out there for it, but I can't find one that works yet (or perhaps I misused one already without knowing it). Does anyone know one? Does it have to be applied on a cell-by-cell basis or will it work on the whole table? Kenward -- Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly. Thomas Henry Huxley
Re: Spacing between table cell contents and borders?
Kenward Vaughan wrote:
I've been finishing off a periodic table which I can insert into any
classroom document, and am struggling to get the elements' masses to
center in the cells. When I get up to numbers such as 123.45 it becomes
evident that the cells have a preconceived notion about how far **left**
they will place text; this leaves the right side pushing into the border
of the adjacent cell. I have reduced the font size to smallest--any
more makes it too small.
Is this a fixed-width column? If not, I don't see why the right side
would intrude on the border -- the column should just get wider.
I'd like to get the table to change this padding to something less, but
can't find the command despite repeated searches. I guess I don't have
the right keywords? The whole table would be set to center alignment.
I figure there's got to be a command out there for it, but I can't find
one that works yet (or perhaps I misused one already without knowing
it). Does anyone know one? Does it have to be applied on a
cell-by-cell basis or will it work on the whole table?
I'm not aware of any separate left and right side padding, but then I'm
not TeXpert. The length \tabcolsep is supposed to control the amount of
space left between columns. It's described as half the intracolumn
separation, which I take to mean that LaTeX will pad both sides of a
table cell by that much. You could try \setlength{\tabcolsep}{something
smaller} and see if it helps.
/Paul
Re: Spacing between table cell contents and borders?
On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 11:20 -0400, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
Kenward Vaughan wrote:
I've been finishing off a periodic table which I can insert into any
classroom document, and am struggling to get the elements' masses to
center in the cells. When I get up to numbers such as 123.45 it becomes
evident that the cells have a preconceived notion about how far **left**
they will place text; this leaves the right side pushing into the border
of the adjacent cell. I have reduced the font size to smallest--any
more makes it too small.
Is this a fixed-width column? If not, I don't see why the right side
would intrude on the border -- the column should just get wider.
It is fixed width.
I'd like to get the table to change this padding to something less, but
can't find the command despite repeated searches. I guess I don't have
...
I'm not aware of any separate left and right side padding, but then I'm
not TeXpert. The length \tabcolsep is supposed to control the amount of
space left between columns. It's described as half the intracolumn
separation, which I take to mean that LaTeX will pad both sides of a
table cell by that much. You could try \setlength{\tabcolsep}{something
smaller} and see if it helps.
I'm not sure I've tried playing with this one, but know that attempts to
change the distance between columns (something in LyX's dialog) didn't
help. I'll play with it at work when I get there today.
Kenward
--
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. --
Albert Einstein
Spacing between table cell contents and borders?
I've been finishing off a periodic table which I can insert into any classroom document, and am struggling to get the elements' masses to center in the cells. When I get up to numbers such as 123.45 it becomes evident that the cells have a preconceived notion about how far **left** they will place text; this leaves the right side pushing into the border of the adjacent cell. I have reduced the font size to smallest--any more makes it too small. I'd like to get the table to change this padding to something less, but can't find the command despite repeated searches. I guess I don't have the right keywords? The whole table would be set to center alignment. I figure there's got to be a command out there for it, but I can't find one that works yet (or perhaps I misused one already without knowing it). Does anyone know one? Does it have to be applied on a cell-by-cell basis or will it work on the whole table? Kenward -- Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly. Thomas Henry Huxley
Re: Spacing between table cell contents and borders?
Kenward Vaughan wrote:
I've been finishing off a periodic table which I can insert into any
classroom document, and am struggling to get the elements' masses to
center in the cells. When I get up to numbers such as 123.45 it becomes
evident that the cells have a preconceived notion about how far **left**
they will place text; this leaves the right side pushing into the border
of the adjacent cell. I have reduced the font size to smallest--any
more makes it too small.
Is this a fixed-width column? If not, I don't see why the right side
would intrude on the border -- the column should just get wider.
I'd like to get the table to change this padding to something less, but
can't find the command despite repeated searches. I guess I don't have
the right keywords? The whole table would be set to center alignment.
I figure there's got to be a command out there for it, but I can't find
one that works yet (or perhaps I misused one already without knowing
it). Does anyone know one? Does it have to be applied on a
cell-by-cell basis or will it work on the whole table?
I'm not aware of any separate left and right side padding, but then I'm
not TeXpert. The length \tabcolsep is supposed to control the amount of
space left between columns. It's described as half the intracolumn
separation, which I take to mean that LaTeX will pad both sides of a
table cell by that much. You could try \setlength{\tabcolsep}{something
smaller} and see if it helps.
/Paul
Re: Spacing between table cell contents and borders?
On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 11:20 -0400, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
Kenward Vaughan wrote:
I've been finishing off a periodic table which I can insert into any
classroom document, and am struggling to get the elements' masses to
center in the cells. When I get up to numbers such as 123.45 it becomes
evident that the cells have a preconceived notion about how far **left**
they will place text; this leaves the right side pushing into the border
of the adjacent cell. I have reduced the font size to smallest--any
more makes it too small.
Is this a fixed-width column? If not, I don't see why the right side
would intrude on the border -- the column should just get wider.
It is fixed width.
I'd like to get the table to change this padding to something less, but
can't find the command despite repeated searches. I guess I don't have
...
I'm not aware of any separate left and right side padding, but then I'm
not TeXpert. The length \tabcolsep is supposed to control the amount of
space left between columns. It's described as half the intracolumn
separation, which I take to mean that LaTeX will pad both sides of a
table cell by that much. You could try \setlength{\tabcolsep}{something
smaller} and see if it helps.
I'm not sure I've tried playing with this one, but know that attempts to
change the distance between columns (something in LyX's dialog) didn't
help. I'll play with it at work when I get there today.
Kenward
--
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. --
Albert Einstein
Spacing between table cell contents and borders?
I've been finishing off a periodic table which I can insert into any classroom document, and am struggling to get the elements' masses to center in the cells. When I get up to numbers such as 123.45 it becomes evident that the cells have a preconceived notion about how far **left** they will place text; this leaves the right side pushing into the border of the adjacent cell. I have reduced the font size to smallest--any more makes it too small. I'd like to get the table to change this padding to something less, but can't find the command despite repeated searches. I guess I don't have the right keywords? The whole table would be set to center alignment. I figure there's got to be a command out there for it, but I can't find one that works yet (or perhaps I misused one already without knowing it). Does anyone know one? Does it have to be applied on a cell-by-cell basis or will it work on the whole table? Kenward -- Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly. Thomas Henry Huxley
Re: Spacing between table cell contents and borders?
Kenward Vaughan wrote:
I've been finishing off a periodic table which I can insert into any
classroom document, and am struggling to get the elements' masses to
center in the cells. When I get up to numbers such as 123.45 it becomes
evident that the cells have a preconceived notion about how far **left**
they will place text; this leaves the right side pushing into the border
of the adjacent cell. I have reduced the font size to smallest--any
more makes it too small.
Is this a fixed-width column? If not, I don't see why the right side
would intrude on the border -- the column should just get wider.
I'd like to get the table to change this padding to something less, but
can't find the command despite repeated searches. I guess I don't have
the right keywords? The whole table would be set to center alignment.
I figure there's got to be a command out there for it, but I can't find
one that works yet (or perhaps I misused one already without knowing
it). Does anyone know one? Does it have to be applied on a
cell-by-cell basis or will it work on the whole table?
I'm not aware of any separate left and right side padding, but then I'm
not TeXpert. The length \tabcolsep is supposed to control the amount of
space left between columns. It's described as half the intracolumn
separation, which I take to mean that LaTeX will pad both sides of a
table cell by that much. You could try \setlength{\tabcolsep}{something
smaller} and see if it helps.
/Paul
Re: Spacing between table cell contents and borders?
On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 11:20 -0400, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
> Kenward Vaughan wrote:
> > I've been finishing off a periodic table which I can insert into any
> > classroom document, and am struggling to get the elements' masses to
> > center in the cells. When I get up to numbers such as 123.45 it becomes
> > evident that the cells have a preconceived notion about how far **left**
> > they will place text; this leaves the right side pushing into the border
> > of the adjacent cell. I have reduced the font size to smallest--any
> > more makes it too small.
>
> Is this a fixed-width column? If not, I don't see why the right side
> would intrude on the border -- the column should just get wider.
It is fixed width.
> > I'd like to get the table to change this padding to something less, but
> > can't find the command despite repeated searches. I guess I don't have
...
> I'm not aware of any separate left and right side padding, but then I'm
> not TeXpert. The length \tabcolsep is supposed to control the amount of
> space left between columns. It's described as half the intracolumn
> separation, which I take to mean that LaTeX will pad both sides of a
> table cell by that much. You could try \setlength{\tabcolsep}{something
> smaller} and see if it helps.
I'm not sure I've tried playing with this one, but know that attempts to
change the distance between columns (something in LyX's dialog) didn't
help. I'll play with it at work when I get there today.
Kenward
--
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. --
Albert Einstein
