| Title: | DOCUMENT T1.0 | 
| Notice: | **New notesfile (DOCUMENT.NOTE) now available (see note 897)** | 
| Moderator: | CLOSET::ADLER | 
| Created: | Mon Feb 09 1987 | 
| Last Modified: | Thu Oct 31 1991 | 
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 | 
| Number of topics: | 897 | 
| Total number of notes: | 4397 | 
    I am trying to put a table  within a table, but so far without
    success!  I am writing a leader's guide for a course, and this
    is what I'm trying to do:
    
    Main table is used for giving instructions to leader ie
    
    duration       What to do                          Notes
    
    5m             Discuss the meaning of life         Use 
                   and write answers on flipchart      FLIPCHART
    
    I then want to insert another table to get the following effect:
    
    10m           The answers you can expect are:
    
                  CONTRACTS     SERVICES      SOFTWARE
    
                  Yes           No            No
                  In some cases No            Yes
    
    
    Am I trying to achieve the impossible?  At present Document
    keeps telling me that the "table within a table' is too wide
    however small I make the columns.
    
    Hope I have made myself clear
    
    
    Aly
    (A Highly Irritated Course Designer)       
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines | 
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 789.1 | meanings within meanings | VAXUUM::KOHLBRENNER | Tue Aug 11 1987 11:08 | 6 | |
|     A table within a table should be no problem.  We probably need
    to see the source to figure out what is wrong.
    
    (Only five minutes to discuss the meaning of life?)  ;-)
    
    bill
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| 789.2 | Sounds like character overcounting | COOKIE::JOHNSTON | Tue Aug 11 1987 13:24 | 12 | |
| Without seeing the code, I don't know if your problem is similar to one that I had; but it sounds like it is. DOCUMENT is overcounting the number of characters in the second table; adding them to the characters in the first table rather than "replacing" them with the new count of characters. Note 662 explains the problem and Patti explains the fix. Rose | |||||
| 789.3 | Bug; same as 662 | CLOSET::ANKLAM | Tue Aug 11 1987 13:30 | 8 | |
|     
    Rose beat me to it; yes 662.1 explains a workaround for this bug.
    Note that all it does is to get around the tag translator's E-level
    message. The text processor may shift to the smaller font if you
    don't leave enough width for the inner column.
    
    patti
    
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| 789.4 | IT WORKED! | RDGENG::SIM | Wed Aug 12 1987 04:34 | 5 | |
|     Thanks, everyone, my table printed out quite happily this morning
    after I tried your solution.
    
    Alison
    (A Bright and Cheerful Course Developer)
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