Re: Formatting in table going wrong?

[Jeff Kingston]

Dave Baldwin wrote:

> The text and resulting ps file enclosed.

Your example used @LLP but the question was about what happens
when you use @LP.  However, I replaced your @LLP's with @LP's
and there was indeed still the same problem.  I had forgotten
another change I make, which was to use the format

    @Cell @OneRow C

(in combination with other things as usual) when the table
entry has multiple paragraphs.  However, even when I did
that the first @LP was wrong, although the second was right.
I had to resort to magic, finally getting it to work by
inserting ^// as the very first thing inside the entry:

   @Rowb
 A {2}  B {30Jan07}   C { @OneRow {
^//
Hooked up...
}

which is ridiculous of course.  I will look into fixing it for
the next release.  I'm still wondering how it managed to lurk
for so long.

> I am happy to build a debug build and send a trace...

No need for this, the problems have been quite repeatable here.

> [ letting Lout choose the width of one column while trying
> to ensure that all tables get the full page width doesn't
> work ] if there isn't enough text in the column to force
> the table to expand to the width of the page.

True; but you could use @HExpand in the format to solve this.
It would have the advantage of allowing your tables to exactly
fill the available width.

Jeff