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<font face="Courier New, Courier">At 20:41 15.04.06, Paul Tremblay
wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 11:55:38PM
+0200, Uwe Lück wrote:<br>
> Anyway, I think, one should not leave tabular for something else
as<br>
> for saving lines ... otherwise, just take the most narrow tables
(... <br>
> roughly).<br>
> -- And tabular* doesn't save lines (!).<br><br>
I'm lost here. What do you mean save lines and not save
lines?</blockquote><br>
Sorry, my English may have been insuffienct here. <br><br>
Suppose you think of a 2 by 2 table, each cell consisting of <br>
six words of approximately equal length. Suppose with certain <br>
parameters for tabular with two `p' columns, you get <br><br>
Aaa1 Aaa2 Bbb1
Bbb2<br>
Aaa3 Aaa4 Bbb3
Bbb4<br>
Aaa5 Aaa6 Bbb5
Bbb6<br><br>
Ccc1 Ccc2 Ddd1
Ddd2<br>
Ccc3 Ccc4 Ddd2
Ddd3<br>
Ccc5 Ccc6 Ddd4
Ddd5<br><br>
With a larger sum width and with tabular*, you may get <br><br>
Aaa1
Aaa2
Bbb1 Bbb2<br>
Aaa3
Aaa4
Bbb3 Bbb4<br>
Aaa5
Aaa6
Bbb5 Bbb6<br><br>
Ccc1
Ccc2
Ddd1 Ddd2<br>
Ccc3
Ccc4
Ddd2 Ddd3<br>
Ccc5
Ccc6
Ddd4 Ddd5<br><br>
instead. So the cells have been typeset exactly as before; <br>
only the space between the columns -- or the placement of <br>
the cells -- has changed. -- <br>
Now when you replace tabular* by tabularx with the same <br>
sum width and `X' in place of the `p' columns, you get <br><br>
Aaa1 Aaa2 Aaa3 Bbb1 Bbb2 Bbb3<br>
Aaa4 Aaa5 Aaa6 Bbb4 Bbb5 Bbb6 <br><br>
Ccc1 Ccc2 Ccc3 Ddd1 Ddd2 Ddd3 <br>
Ccc4 Ccc5 Ccc6 Ddd4 Ddd5 Ddd6<br><br>
(I have aimed at a center after 18 equal-width letters. <br>
I hope very much that you see this with your E-Mail program, <br>
while I have tried my one with Courier instead of Arial the <br>
first time in my life.) <br>
-- So you need two lines less then with tabular* <br>
-- i.e., as I meant, you "save 2 lines". <br><br>
HTH -- Uwe. <br>
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