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<expand|tmdoc-title|Advanced table features>
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In the menus, you also find some other more special features for tables.
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Very briefly, these include the following:
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<item>Change the ``span'' of a cell and let it run over its neighbouring
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cells on its right and below.
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<item>Creation of entire subtables inside cells.
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<item>Correction of the depth and height of text, in order to let the
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<item>Horizontal hyphenation of cell contents and vertical hyphenation of
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<item>Gluing several rows and/or columns together, so that the glued
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cells become ``part of the borders'' of the remaining cells.
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<item>Disactivation of the table, in order to see its ``source code''.
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<item>Setting the ``extension center'' of a table. From now on, the
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formatting properties of this cell will be used for new cells created
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<item>Specification of the minimal and maximum size of a table, which
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will be respected during further editing. (this is mainly useful when
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creating table macros).
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Currently, all tables come inside an environment like <markup|tabular>,
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<markup|block>, <markup|matrix>, etc. When creating your own table macros,
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you may use <apply|menu|Table|Special table properties|Extract format> to
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extract the format from a given table.
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<associate|reduction page bottom margin|15mm>
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<associate|even page margin|30mm>
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<associate|reduction page left margin|25mm>
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