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13:19:01
contrapunctus
I want to display some text as the heading of a table, and I want it to be in the center of the table...how might I do this?
13:23:45
jackdaniel
the best bet is probably to make a compound output record where the first child is the header, and the second child is the table, then when both are created move each relative to each other
13:24:04
jackdaniel
as of how exactly to do that you'll need to experiment a little (I'm kind of busy now)
14:29:36
scymtym
if you don't mind the slight overhead, you can surround everything in another table. the first row of the outer table contains the heading as a cell with :align-x :center and the second row of the outer table contains the "actual" table
15:14:16
scymtym
jackdaniel's method would have been more efficient since fewer output records would be created and the positioning would have been trivial compared to the table layout protocol. but depending on the application, that overhead may very well be irrelevant