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Re: text in tables -- smaller than or same size as regular body text
Subject:Re: text in tables -- smaller than or same size as regular body text From:John Posada <jposada99 -at- gmail -dot- com> To:Milan Davidovic <milan -dot- lists -at- gmail -dot- com> Date:Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:26:37 -0400
> Any thoughts on why table body text should be smaller?
Fit more? Since FM, which I use, doesn't break rows between pages, by
having smaller rows I reduce the number of times that I'll have big
blocks of white space at the bottom of a table.
It also reduces the amount of time I have to expand column widths to
handle numeric strings. Nobody likes numbers to wrap in columns
I also think it looks better.
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John Posada
Senior Technical Writer
NYMetro STC President
Looking for the next gig.
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