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Using axes as columns
The text across the top of the table defining the contents of the columns is usually called the breakdown or banner, and is defined in the column axis. All axes can be used to create either rows or columns, so there is no need to write two versions of the same axis because at some times it forms the rows of an axis and at other times it forms the columns. There are three ways that Quantum can create column headings:
Fully automatically using element texts. The column width is calculated by dividing the space available for column headings by the number of columns to be printed.
Semi-automatically using element texts and a user-defined column width defined with colwid= on the a, sectbeg, flt, tab or l statement or on the individual elements themselves.
Manually using heading texts defined on g statements and column widths defined on p statements.
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Maximum width for column headings
Fully automatic set-up
Defining breakpoints in element texts
Defining column widths with colwid=
Manual set-up
Printing numbers in columns
Underlining column headings
Splitting large tables