[tex4ht] Summary of supertabular behaviour

[Beuthe, Thomas]

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I've been messing around with supertabular under TeX4ht and though I'd
share a few things I discovered.

Supertabular can be a bit sensitive. Using a scheme like this:
 
%add special command which allows ragged right to occur in tabular p environment
\newcommand{\PreserveBackslash}[1]{\let\temp=\\#1\let\\=\temp}
 
\begin{supertabular}{r>{\PreserveBackslash\raggedright\hspace{0pt}}p{4.75in}}
\end{supertabular}
 
to make a ragged right edge in the one column can really cause
problems because some of the pictorial content of in-line math
will be created with large skinny boxes that extend extremely
high in the vertical direction. As a result it looks like there
are huge spaces in the supertabular environment.
 
Using
 
\begin{supertabular}{rp{4.75in}}
 
instead does help things considerably, but it still can cause
the same class of problem.
 
One solution to the "skinny box" problem is to re-write the
supertabular environment as follows:
 
\begin{supertabular}{rl}
 
but then the right-most column will not automatically wrap
anymore if the window size is changed.
 
In the end, the best solution seems to be to specify a large
paragraph like this for example:
 
\begin{supertabular}{rp{12in}}
 
This seems to work perfectly. I didn't test how large the
paragraph has to be, but this worked for me.

Thomas




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