Re: [Gnumed-bugs] current_meds_notes placeholder

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 12:38:09AM -0700, Jim Busser wrote:

> I have reverse-engineered what
> 
>       $<current_meds_notes::latex>$ 
> 
> needs to return.

Good.

> Currently, it yields a \small line labelled
> 
>       Additional notes
> 
> below which it supplies data from 3 medication columns
> 
>       Substance, Strength, Brand
> 
> Two problems are observed in the currenlty-substituted template (see below 
> CURRENT vs NEEDED).
> 
> 1) Basically, in order to define a three-column table so
> as to allow its first and third column contents to wrap,
> they need the following form wherein I have assigned those
> two columns a width because the option
> 
>       p{width}
> 
> requires that {width} be specified and for this case I suggest 6.5 cm.

OK.

> in which the first and third columns need the majority of
> the available width and – even despite the accommodation
> – still need to paragraph-wrap, what we need the
> placeholder to return is a table format
> 
>       \noindent address@hidden|p{6.5cm}|l|p{6.5cm}|}

Why not

        \noindent \begin{tabular}{|p{6.5cm}|l|p{6.5cm}|}

?

> 2) we also need to get rid of the empty
> 
>       & {\scriptsize }
>
> at the end of each row.

Why ?

We certainly can't get rid of the "&" part or else LaTeX
will break building the table.

Karsten
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