Planned for Future Release

We are planning to update this to 8 in the XPP 9.9 release and will keep this group posted as we progress.

In Tabular t4 table, left‐flush and right‐hang character alignment setting are limited to 4 characters, it is needed to be extended to handle more characters.

Simon Tung
  • in reply to Thomas Mangan

    Certainly, having more than four characters in the <setaln> alignment f-l/r-h character feature would be beneficial.

  • in reply to Thomas Mangan

    It would also be useful to have the other t4 fields and <setaln> arguments extended to allow more than four characters, 2nd/3rd/4th.

  • Hello,

    This question has come up a few times very recently: "Why does the four-character limit exist in the t4 spec?

    The need to support additional f-left and r-h characters
    On our interactive system, we've relied on typesetters to key in the overrides necessary using <setaln> and <cal> to compensate for the limitation in the t4 spec. For some of our other offerings, there are no typesetters involved, this is the reason I've been asked the question above and if these fields could be expanded so that additional characters could be added. 

    While I know I can create additional rules in the t4 spec, having these rules trigger automatically in an automated environment isn't always possible.

    Adding the Simon's earlier request to extend the number of characters that can be entered into the f-left and r-h fields in a single t4 alignment rule.

    Kind regards
    Thomas