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[Nicolas Girard <address@hidden>]

On Thursday 16 November 2006 15:42, Joris van der Hoeven wrote:
>
> Please make sure that you are using a recent version of TeXmacs
> for discussions about table formatting, 

I was referring to the latest release, 1.0.6.6.

> because I made some important 
> changes in may/june. 

Is it only available via cvs or is it included in the 1.0.6.6 version ?

> In principle, it should be possible to do about 
> aby kind of complex table formatting, and it should be easier than before.

It seems great. Could you tell us more ? I've checked the mailing-lists but 
didn't find any related discussion about these changes 

> If you want something particular, and don't see how to do it,
> then please explain clearly what you want.

Let's imagine we want that upon every subsection a line is drawn, whose width 
should be 1 par.
With a simple layout, it would look like:

____________________________________________________________
1. My subsection


My text


Now, let's imagine a more complex layout: for instance,
every page has 1 table whose width is set to 1 par.
This table should contain 1 row and 2 cells
- 1st cell: width = 5cm
- 2nd cell:
  - width: should not be greater than (1par - 5cm)
  - hyphenation: t
  - contents: the sample above

The result should look like as follows:

+-----+------------------+
|     | ________________ |
|     | 1.My subsection  |
|     |                  |
|     | My text          |
|     |                  |
+-----+------------------+


But since in the 2nd cell the value of the "par" unit is not set to the 
*actual* width of the place left for the text, the result looks like:

+-----+------------------+
|     | _______________________
|     | 1.My subsection  |
|     |                  |
|     | My text          |
|     |                  |
+-----+------------------+


I hope my example is clear ; you need to use a fixed-length font to display 
the above samples

Cheers,
Nicolas