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[Henri Lesourd <address@hidden>]

> I'm new to TeXmacs, so please exacuse me if this question is one of 
> those ones people always ask when they didn't read the documentation 
> properly...
>
> When I have a table with a lot of text in a cell, the table gets wider 
> than the page. How can I get the text to wrap aound inside the cell 
> once the table gets to the page width?
>
> I tried to set the cell width using the command M-t h w [some number]. 
> This does seem to resize the cell width, but the text simply continues 
> through the border of the cell and off the edge of the page...
You cannot change it if you don't cut the content of a cell into several 
lines (or
perhaps there is a way, but I don't know it).

To allow this, put the cursor into the cell you want to change, and choose
"Table/Special cell properties/Hyphenation/Multi-paragraph" (take care about
not confusing this entry with "Table/Special **table** 
properties/Hyphenation",
which is someting different (I don't know what this one does, indeed)).

Thus as soon as you do "Table/Special cell 
properties/Hyphenation/Multi-paragraph",
the current table cell becomes multiline, and you can rearrange the text 
in the cell
in several lines to set the table to a more reasonable with.