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Advanced table features |
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In the menus, you also find some other more special features for
tables. Very briefly, these include the following:
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Change the “span” of a cell and let it run over its
neighbouring cells on its right and below.
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Creation of entire subtables inside cells.
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Correction of the depth and height of text, in order to let the
baselines match.
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Horizontal hyphenation of cell contents and vertical hyphenation of
the entire table.
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Gluing several rows and/or columns together, so that the glued cells
become “part of the borders” of the remaining cells.
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Disactivation of the table, in order to see its “source
code”.
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Setting the “extension center” of a table. From now on,
the formatting properties of this cell will be used for new cells
created around this center.
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Specification of the minimal and maximum size of a table, which will
be respected during further editing. (this is mainly useful when
creating table macros).
Currently, all tables come inside an environment like tabular, block,
matrix, etc. When creating
your own table macros, you may use Table→Special table properties→Extract
format to extract the format from a given table.
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