On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 06:01:18PM +0200, Tadziu Hoffmann wrote: > > > but I still would appreciate to get some hint how to tune > > the inter-column spacing. > > From "Tbl -- A Program to Format Tables": > > Space between columns -- A number may follow the key-letter. > This indicates the amount of separation between this > column and the next column. The number normally specifies > the separation in ens. If the "expand" option is used, > then these numbers are multiplied by a constant such > that the table is as wide as the current line length. The > default column separation number is 3. If the separation > is changed the worst case (largest space requested) > governs. > yes, thanks. and my problem relates to the `expand' directive (cf. my other mail to werner and the list).
the above is quite clear and it seems that for too wide tables `expand' actually uses the constant value zero to multipy the column separation (which still does not guarantee that the final table is as wide as the line length, though). overall, I think it would be nicer if `expand' would check that the final column separation does not drop below, say, 1 'en'. zero separation just does'nt look right... joerg
