[NTG-context] Re: proportional column widths in natural tables?

2004-02-16 Thread Stefan Wachter
Hi Hans, thanks for the tip regarding the stretch option. I tried the option and had the impression that the table is streched if the sum of the widths of the columns is less then the available width. Yet, if the sum of the widths exceeds the available width then the table is NOT shrunk! I

[NTG-context] Re: proportional column widths in natural tables?

2004-02-15 Thread Stefan Wachter
Hi Willi, thanks for your reply. Can you please tell me, what the makeupwidth is? It seems that I have to do some calculations for the widths by myself: I have a CALS table model where the widths are specified by proportional weights. - I have to sum the weigths of all columns and divide each

Re: [NTG-context] Re: proportional column widths in natural tables?

2004-02-15 Thread Willi Egger
Hi Stefan, From the english manual...p24-25 Basically textwidth is the width available at the moment i.e. when in any other sitation than one column. Makeupwidth is the total width of the typesetting area. Concerning you CALS table model, I assume indeed that you will have to calculate the

Re: [NTG-context] Re: proportional column widths in natural tables?

2004-02-15 Thread Hans Hagen
At 19:55 15/02/2004, you wrote: Hi Willi, thanks for your reply. Can you please tell me, what the makeupwidth is? It seems that I have to do some calculations for the widths by myself: I have a CALS table model where the widths are specified by proportional weights. - I have to sum the weigths