Re: left and right justification in column in table

[Joe Beach]

Hi Barrie, 

One option might be to use an @Diag and a couple of text boxes in the
name/phone column. 

@CD 13.3c @Wide @Tbl
aformat address@hidden indent {left}} A | @Cell width {11c} B }
{
@Rowa 
A {x1} 
B {
   @Diag {
   11c @Wide 
   //
   NAME:: @Box translate {W to 0,0.5} margins {0c} outlinestyle {noline}
      {Christopher "&" Jane}
   NUMBER::@Box translate {E to 1,0.5} margins {0c} 
      outlinestyle {noline} {1875 00 647 123 4567}
   } # end of diagram
} # end of B
} # end of table data

I haven't actually run this, but I think it will work. You'll need to be
sure to add @SysInclude {diag} to the beginning of your lout file. The
NAME text box will be at the left side of the second column, and the
NUMBER text box will be at the right side of the second column. You
might need to add an @High to the diagram, I'm not sure if it will just
automatically take on the height of its contents. You may also need to
change the margins of the text boxes, or use a different alignment to
get the placement you want. For example, translate {SW to 0,0} instead
of {W to 0,0.5}, or something like that. But I think the basic idea will
work. 

Joe Beach


On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 07:06, Barrie Stott wrote:
> I am trying to produce a table with 3 columns to help with use of
> memories in a phone. The result should be a sequence of rows of the
> following form where code is a small string (< 5 characters):
> 
>       code   name   number
> 
> For example:
> 
>       x1   Christopher & Jane    1875 00 647 123 4567
>       x33  Roy & Barbara Mason   987654
> 
> Occasional phone numbers are quite long as are some names and this is
> a nuisance since I want the font size to be quite large. It would be
> nice to coalesce columns 2 and 3 into a single column where the name
> part is left justified and the phone part is right justified. I tried
> to achieve this by specifying the width of the column and using |1rt
> within the column as shown below. Unfortunately, the result is not as
> desired; there is no space at all between name and number. If anyone
> can help I'd be most grateful. (I'm using lout 3.24 under linux.)
> 
> 
> @CD 13.3c @Wide @Tbl
>       aformat { @Cell indent {right} A | @Cell width {11c} B }
> {
>       @Rowa A {x1}  B {"Christopher & Jane" |1rt 1875 00 647 123 4567}
>       @Rowa A {x33} B {"Fred & Elsie Mason" |1rt 987654}
> }
> 
> Barrie.
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