Wolfgang, you are my rescue! thak you very much for pointing me to the solution!
Kind regards Willi > On 25 Jul 2025, at 00:07, Wolfgang Schuster > <wolfgang.schuster.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Am 24.07.2025 um 22:49 schrieb Willi Egger: >> Hi all, >> at the moment I am writing an article about the use of the Soroban (Japanese >> abacus). >> There are a couple of tables showing formulae. The struggle is, that the >> alignment of the formulae is strange. >> I use alignmentcharacter= and aligncharacter=yes for aligning the formulae >> in a bTABLE…\eTABLE construct. >> It appears that this causes ConTeXt to use the alignment character at the >> end of the headings + 1 position. >> I would be glad if someone could enlighten me how to improve the layout. > > Disable the character alignment in the header with > > \bTD[aligncharacter=no] Calculation \eTD > > or > > \bTH Calculation \eTH > > because TH cell type sets "aligncharacter=no" (but uses bold font). > > > Another option is > > \bTD \nocharcteralign Calculation \eTD > > > You can also divide your table into sections and enable character alignment > only in the body section, e.g. > > \bTABLE > \bTABLEhead > \bTR \bTD Calculation \eTD \eTR > \eTABLEhead > \bTABLEbody[characteralign=yes] > \bTR \bTD ... \eTD \eTR > \eTABLEbody > \eTABLE > > > Wolfgang > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the > Wiki! > > maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / > https://mailman.ntg.nl/mailman3/lists/ntg-context.ntg.nl > webpage : https://www.pragma-ade.nl / https://context.aanhet.net (mirror) > archive : https://github.com/contextgarden/context > wiki : https://wiki.contextgarden.net > ___________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / https://mailman.ntg.nl/mailman3/lists/ntg-context.ntg.nl webpage : https://www.pragma-ade.nl / https://context.aanhet.net (mirror) archive : https://github.com/contextgarden/context wiki : https://wiki.contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
