Hamid Haji wrote: > On 25 May 2012, at 07:15, AlanD wrote: > >> I spent hours yesterday, like you, in Nisus 1.4.2, looking everywhere for the means of converting layout measurements. I eventually found it where I ought to have looked in the first place: Main Nisus Menu/View/Rulers – cm, in, mm, pc, pt. > [...] > There is a very useful unit converter with NRuler app, which allows the user to see the values of all measurement units - pixels, inches, centimetres, picas, and points - simultaneously as you enter the value of any one unit. > > http://noutash.com/freebies/nruler/ > > Application menus and shortcuts can be viewed in NRuler's preferences. > > Unit Convertor is invoked with Command-u. Hm... But neither Alans nor NRuler helps here... What I was looking for is a possibility to _change_ the colum sizes just by entering a given value, so all tables have same column sizes instead of just dragging column separators left<->right in a table. I mostly work with two types of tables 1. A 2-column table where column 1 must be 2 cm and the rest -17 cm - of the page width to column 2. 2. A 3-column table where column 1 and 2 must be (apprx.) 8,5cm each and column 3 - again - must be 2 cm visualization... Table 1: (here 3 independant tables) Column 1 Column 2 xxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Column 1 Column 2 xxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Column 1 Column 2 xxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Table 2 Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxx Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxx Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxx It doesnot look good that the tables may be showing up like this when they are placed just underneath each others Table 1: (here 3 independant tables) Column 1 Column 2 xxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Column 1 Column 2 xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Column 1 Column 2 xxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx It would be very nice to have a feature in 'Table' like the one in 'Column' settings under the text part where you can define the column width in cm/inch as you like it. The function of setting a column width in a table is implemented as standard in most other textprocessors like Word Mac/Win, OpenOffice, NeoOffice, LibreOffice and StarOffice Mac/Win. In alle those you just click on 'Define Table' -> 'Column Width' and enter a value for each column - click OK/Define - and the columns are set. This you can do for each table in a multi-table document so all tables defined have the exact same with for the columns In NWP I enter lot of one-line texts (music library). such a one-line text can hold 3 or more information. Each information separated by a tab-stop. Using the NWP feature 'Convert to Table' will then change the text into a finished table. Example: 2001 The Art Of Old-Time Mountain Music 01 Old Molly Hare Haywood Blevins 02 Old Blind Sow, She Stole The Middlins John W. Summers 03 The High Toned Dance Glenn Ohrlin 04 Po' Black Sheep Frazier & Patterson Using the 'Convert to Table' will make the finished table look like this. Digits 1-4 refer to amount of columns... 1 2 3 4 2001 The Art Of Old-Time Mountain Music 01 Old Molly Hare Haywood Blevins 02 Old Blind Sow, She Stole The Middlins John W. Summers 03 The High Toned Dance Glenn Ohrlin 04 Po' Black Sheep Frazier & Patterson First raw contains year of release and album title Next raws contain (1)empty, (2)track number, (3)track title and (4)artist. In this table here the widths are 1=2,0 cm, 2=1,0 cm, 3=8,0 cm, 4=8,0 cm In some very old recordings recording year is added after either artist or track title. In this case I add one more tab-stop which adds a column 5=2,0 cm. ...But, but...I still have to drag the widths instead of just selecting a 'Define Width' and enter the value.:-( OK... There is one solution... I could make the work in OpenOffice - either in OOWriter or OOSpreadSheet, save as OOo template and then re-open in NWP and save as RTF, but I count this as double-work... Cheers, Erik Richard -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Erik Richard Sørensen, Member of ADC, <[log in to unmask]> NisusWriter - The Future In Multilingual Text Processing - www.nisus.com Openoffice.org - The Modern Productivity Solution - www.openoffice.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~