Am Donnerstag, 19. September 2024, 09:35:49 MESZ schrieb Hans Hagen via
ntg-context:
> On 9/19/2024 7:54 AM, Mikael Sundqvist wrote:
> > 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.
>
> here is an alternative
>
> \bTABLE[frame=off]
> \bTR[align={middle,low}]
> \bTH \eTH
> \bTH
> \dontleavehmode\kern1.5em\llap{\rotate[rotation=315,frame=on]{\strut
> Water buffalo}\hss} \eTH
> \bTH
> \dontleavehmode\kern1.5em\llap{\rotate[rotation=315,frame=on]{\strut
> Mexican redknee tarantula}\hss} \eTH
> \bTH
> \dontleavehmode\kern1.5em\llap{\rotate[rotation=315,frame=on]{\strut
> European turtle dove}\hss} \eTH
> \eTR
> \bTR[frame=on,align=middle]
> \bTD Amount of legs \eTD
> \bTD[width=3em] 4 \eTD
> \bTD[width=3em] 8 \eTD
> \bTD[width=3em] 2 \eTD
> \eTR
> \eTABLEWhat is the meaning of \hss here? It seems to work just fine without it. Gerion
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