RE: Table strange behaviour

[Neumann, Matthew C]

Yep, that did the trick.  Wow.

I did try adding text just before and just after the table; but it put my
text together on one page and the oversized table on the next page.  It's
working well, now.

Thanks for such a helpful and prompt reply; I think I'll go ahead and use
lout to build my tables, now.

Thanks again!

-Matt Neumann
Boeing Reusable Space Systems
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-----Original Message-----
From: Valeriy E. Ushakov [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2000 12:57 PM
To: address@hidden
Cc: Matthew C. Neumann
Subject: Re: Table strange behaviour


On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 12:21:04 -0500, Neumann, Matthew C wrote:

> When I use the @CaptionPos {above} symbol, the table suddenly
> expands to take up the whole page.  What am I doing wrong?  If I
> leave the symbol commented out, the table is nice and small.

If the table is all you want - add @Location { AfterLine } to @Table
parameters:

    @Table
     @Location { AfterLine }
     @CaptionPos {above}
    ...

What happens is that default @TableLocation is PageTop and there's no
body text that prevents that place to expand to the bottom of the
page.

Alternatively, you can use @VContract @Tbl to prevent @Tbl from
using all that extra space.

I don't think you will encounter behaviour like this in a real
document.  Hope, Jeff will look into internals when he's back from
sightseeing.

Hope that helps.

SY, Uwe
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