Hi,
On Thu, Sep 19, 2024 at 12:23 AM Gerion Entrup <gerion.ent...@flump.de> wrote:
>
> Am Mittwoch, 18. September 2024, 22:53:55 MESZ schrieb Wolfgang Schuster:
> > Gerion Entrup schrieb am 18.09.2024 um 14:44:
> > > Am Dienstag, 17. September 2024, 20:36:23 MESZ schrieb Gerion Entrup:
> > >> Hi,
> > >>
> > >> I want to typeset a table where some of the column headings are really
> > >> long, while in the columns itself consists only of numbers.
> > >> Therefore, my idea was to rotate the column headings but not 90 degrees
> > >> (I found some solutions for that) but 45 degree.
> > >>
> > >> It then would be beneficial to push together the rotated cells, so the
> > >> text of one cell actually starts above the previous cell.
> > >> Do you know, how to achieve that?
> > >>
> > >> Here is a minimal example:
> > >> ```
> > >> \startsetups[table:rotated]
> > >> \setupTABLE[frame=off]
> > >> \setupTABLE[row][first][bottomframe=on, style=bf, align={center, low}]
> > >> \setupTABLE[row][2][align=flushright]
> > >> \stopsetups
> > >>
> > >> \starttext
> > >> \define\tablerotate{\dontleavehmode\rotate[rotation=-45, location=high]}
> > >> \bTABLE[setups=table:rotated]
> > >> \bTR \bTD \eTD \bTD \tablerotate{Water buffalo} \eTD \bTD
> > >> \tablerotate{Mexican redknee tarantula} \eTD \bTD \tablerotate{European
> > >> turtle dove} \eTD \eTR
> > >> \bTR \bTD Amount of legs \eTD \bTD \digits{4} \eTD \bTD \digits{8}
> > >> \eTD \bTD \digits{2} \eTD \eTR
> > >> \eTABLE
> > >> \stoptext
> > >> ```
> > >> I would like to achieve that the text "Mexican redknee tarantula" is
> > >> typeset right and above of "Water buffalo" so that the single columns
> > >> have a width that is similar to the width of the single digit coming in
> > >> the second row.
> > >
> > > To visualize this, I patched the PDF of the above example to the desired
> > > result. See the attachment.
> >
> > You can use Metapost.
>
> Thanks for this solution. It, however, seems to fail with any other angle
> than 315° (I tested 305, 325 and 314).
Try
xyscaled(\the\struttotal,abs(sind(\MPvar{rotation}))*\the\widthofstring{\MPvar{text}});
with sind instead of sin. And maybe with abs around it, but one can
think of improvements for smaller angles. It all depends on what one
wants.
/Mikael
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