Wolfgang, you are my rescue! thak you very much for pointing me to the solution! Kind regards Willi

On 25 Jul 2025, at 00:07, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

Am 24.07.2025 um 22:49 schrieb Willi Egger:

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Hi all, at the moment I am writing an article about the use of the Soroban (Japanese abacus). There are a couple of tables showing formulae. The struggle is, that the alignment of the formulae is strange. I use alignmentcharacter= and aligncharacter=yes for aligning the formulae in a bTABLE…\eTABLE construct. It appears that this causes ConTeXt to use the alignment character at the end of the headings + 1 position. I would be glad if someone could enlighten me how to improve the layout.

Disable the character alignment in the header with

\bTD[aligncharacter=no] Calculation \eTD

or

\bTH Calculation \eTH

because TH cell type sets "aligncharacter=no" (but uses bold font).

Another option is

\bTD \nocharcteralign Calculation \eTD

You can also divide your table into sections and enable character alignment only in the body section, e.g.

\bTABLE \bTABLEhead \bTR \bTD Calculation \eTD \eTR \eTABLEhead \bTABLEbody[characteralign=yes] \bTR \bTD ... \eTD \eTR \eTABLEbody \eTABLE

Wolfgang

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