[XeTeX] Large brace in multiline table cell

[BPJ]

2013-10-12 17:23, Philip Taylor skrev:
>
>
> BPJ wrote:
> need to set a text (not math) table with two
>> columns where the left column contains linebreaks
>> and a 'stretchy' right brace along the right edge of the cell,
>> i.e. like so:
>>
>>      line 1  \
>>      line 2  |   General description of what
>>      line 3  >   kind of things the lines
>>      line 4  |   in the left cell represent
>>      line 5  /
>>
>>      More such rows with different numbers of lines
>>      in the left cell.
>
> Do you need to manually specify the line-turns in the
> left-hand column,

Yes that's the rub.  I'm experimenting with the various
suggestions right now, and one problem is that there is
a lot of whitespace to the left of a table-in-a-table...

> or would it be sufficient to specify
> the target width of that column and allow TeX to wrap
> the text to the best of its ability ?
>
> Philip Taylor
>
>
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