On Mar 27, 2010, at 2:11 PM, Michael Brand wrote:
Are there reasons to only narrow but not to widen columns?
I think this is really the only thing that makes sense. Why would
you want it any wider, given the limited amount of screen real
estate we have here? I don't think it would be difficult to make
it behave the way you request, but I don't think I would ever
use widening fields. When would you want to use this?
I see, there _are_ reasons for `maximum width' (and other variants
would be only additional if ever).
The variant `fixed width' can be useful for the following timetable.
Here it is achieved with the field content
`<= widen'
in the last row.
several columns with the same width:
|-------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------|
| | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri |
|-------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------|
| 8:15 | Math | Compute=> | - | Math | Compute=> |
| 13:15 | - | Math | Compute=> | - | Math |
|-------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------|
| / | <9> | <9> | <9> | <9> | <9> |
| / | <= => | <= => | <= => | <= => | <= => |
instead of:
|-------+------+--------------+--------------+------+--------------|
| | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri |
|-------+------+--------------+--------------+------+--------------|
| 8:15 | Math | Computer S=> | - | Math | Computer S=> |
| 13:15 | - | Math | Computer S=> | - | Math |
|-------+------+--------------+--------------+------+--------------|
| / | | <12> | <12> | | <12> |
or even:
| Mon | 8:15 | Math |
| Tue | 8:15 | Computer Science |
| Tue | 13:15 | Math |
| Wed | 13:15 | Computer Science |
| Thu | 8:15 | Math |
| Fri | 8:15 | Computer Science |
| Fri | 13:15 | Math |
Yes, thinking more about it, I do agree that a fixed width makes a lot
of sense as the application of <N>. It does now work like this.
Thanks!
- Carsten
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