Width
Specify minimum, maximum, and fixed column widths.
Novem is currently in closed alpha. This documentation is incomplete and subject to change.
Novem tables allow you specify column widths in "units". You can think of units almost like pixels, except there is no guarantee that a unit is a 1:1 match against screen pixels. You can however assume that relative sizes given in units across novem endpoints is consistent. So a medium size table of 600 units can be properly divided into three columns of 200 units.
There are three types of widths you can assign to a column, min, max and
fixed shortened i,x and f respectively.
Width instructions follows a similar slicing syntax as other cell instructions,
but only column selectors are supplied, followed by width in units and then
type.
Max width x allows you to define the maximum width a column can have, this
means the column can be smaller, but never wider, than the supplied width.
: 0 x 200 -- give the first column a max width of 200
Minimum width i defines the smallest width a table column will have,
regardless of content the width of the column will never be smaller than
the specified minimum width.
: 1 i 200 -- give the second column a min width of 200
Fixed width specifies that a column should never have any other size than the supplied width, all content larger than the width will be truncated according to formatting rules.
: 2 f 200 -- specify that the third column should be fixed to 200 units