On 26-Oct-2013 16:07:47 James K. Lowden wrote: > I'm confused about how best to lay out tables side by side. > I'm using the ms macro set. The main text stretches across > the page (one column), but I want the tables adjacent so that > they can be more easily compared. > > My basic approach is > > .mk > .TS > ... table 1 ... > .TE > .rt > .DS 3i > .TS > ... table 2 ... > .TE > > If the table is too long for the current page, and lands on > the next one, that doesn't work well at all, so I have > > .KS > .mk > .TS > ... table 1 ... > .TE > .KE > .rt > .DS 3i > .TS > ... table 2 ... > .TE > > In both cases, though, the second table isn't quite lined up > with the fisrt. I use .sp to move it down, sometimes by 5p, > sometimes by 5 lines, depending on whether or not a keep was > needed. > > I'm obviously doing something wrong, because 1) the second table > doesn' line up, and 2) the way it doesn't line up varies, and > 3) the keep behavior varies according to where the table falls. > > What's the right way, please? > > --jkl
Without having yet looked into the problem you describe, I would suggest that a work-round could be to combine the columns of the two tables into a single table. This may involve a bit of intricacy in composing the table, but it would certainly solve both of the problems you describe: A) The lines of the two [sub-]tables would always be exactly lined up horizontally; B) There would be no problem if the table[s] were too long for a single page, since the combined table, being a single table, would continue faultlessly onto the next page. Small example: .LP .TS centre tab(#); |c s s| c |c s s|. _##_ Table 1#\h'1i'#Table 2 _##_ .T& |l n n| c |l n n|. Date#Min#Max##Date#Min#Max 20/09/2013#5.2#12.6##26/09/2013#6.7#14.5 21/09/2013#4.3#11.5##27/09/2013#5.8#14.0 22/09/2013#2.7#10.1##28/09/2013#5.5#13.7 23/09/2013#2.5# 9.7##29/09/2013#5.2#13.5 24/09/2013#3.4#11.6##30/09/2013#5.9#114.1 24/09/2013#4.5#12.7##\01/10/2013#6.5#15.6 25/09/2013#5.1#13.2##\02/10/2013#7.2#16.5 .T& |c s s|c|c s s|. _##_ .TE The result (from my machine) is attached as PDF: twotablesinone.pdf Hoping this helps! Any comments welcome! Ted. ------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <ted.hard...@wlandres.net> Date: 26-Oct-2013 Time: 18:56:08 This message was sent by XFMail -------------------------------------------------
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