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Tables<br />

Year<br />

Number of ships<br />

contents<br />

1645 450<br />

1671 480<br />

1676 500<br />

1695 930<br />

Table 11.1 Ships that moored at Hasselt.<br />

The table entries are placed between the \starttable · · · \stoptable pair. Between<br />

the bracket pair your c<strong>an</strong> specify the table format with the column separators | <strong>an</strong>d the<br />

format keys (see table 11.2).<br />

index<br />

comm<strong>an</strong>ds<br />

definitions<br />

colofon<br />

Key<br />

Me<strong>an</strong>ing<br />

| column separator<br />

c center<br />

l flush left<br />

r flush right<br />

s set intercolumn space at value n = 0, 1, 2<br />

w set minimum column width at specified value<br />

Table 11.2<br />

Table format keys.<br />

In addition to the format keys there are format comm<strong>an</strong>ds. Table 11.3 shows a few of<br />

the essential comm<strong>an</strong>ds.<br />

In the examples you have seen so far a number of CONT E XT formatting comm<strong>an</strong>ds were<br />

used. These comm<strong>an</strong>ds are somewhat longer th<strong>an</strong> the original <strong>an</strong>d less cryptic but they<br />

also h<strong>an</strong>dle a lot of table typography. In table 11.4 <strong>an</strong> overview of these comm<strong>an</strong>ds is<br />

given.<br />

exit<br />

search +<br />

go back<br />

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