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* <Newbie> TABLES in db2ps output
@ 2000-12-27  6:36 richard offer
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From: richard offer @ 2000-12-27  6:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
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<Newbie>

Hi,

Is there a way of customising the format of the tables in the LaTeX output ?



I have some big tables in my document, more importantly the columns are of
vastly different sizes. When I render to HTML (db2html) I get a nice looking
table (each column is sized to the largets content).



When using db2ps, I get TeX output that seems to constrain each column to be
1/n of the table with (n=number of columns). This looks terrible and almost
doubles the number of pages, since every row wraps..


The actual jade generated tex includes a call to TeXTable (defined in
jadetex.dtx), the call looks something like...

\TeXTable%
{420\p@}{6}{|L{70\p@}|L{70\p@}|L{70\p@}|L{70\p@}|L{70\p@}|L{70\p@}|}

When what I really want is something like...

\TeXTable%
{420\p@}{6}{|l|l|l|l|l|l|}


Can this be done in stylesheets or must I hack the jade code ? If it can be
done in stylesheets, can someone help me ?

</Newbie>



thanks,

richard.


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