separator : truefalse:=true ; Indicates whether a vertical separator located to the left of the Column will be visible when the interior borders of the parent Table are set to be shown by group.

weight : posint:=100; The relative weight of the corresponding column of a Table. The ratio of the width of a particular column relative to the width of the parent Table corresponds to the ratio of that column's weight to the total weight of all columns.

The Column command in the Layout Constructors package returns an XML function call which represents a Column element of a worksheet Table.

The generated XML may be used with the results of other commands in the Layout Constructors package to create an entire Worksheet or Document in XML form. Such a representation of a Worksheet or Document may be inserted into the current document using the InsertContent command.

A Column element does not contain visible content, and serves only as a mechanism for specifying non-default values of the separator or weight options.

When constructing a Table use of the Column constructor is only necessary if some non-default value for the separator or weight options is wanted. The Table constructor will otherwise compute the number of columns from the total column span of each Row.

$\mathrm{with}\left(\mathrm{DocumentTools}\right)\:$

$\mathrm{with}\left(\mathrm{DocumentTools}:-\mathrm{Layout}\right)\:$

$C≔\mathrm{Column}\left(\right)$

$C≔\mathrm{\_XML\_Table-Column}\left(''separator''=''true''\,''weight''=''100''\right)$

$T≔\mathrm{Table}\left(C\,\mathrm{Row}\left(''some\; text''\right)\right)\:$

$\mathrm{xml}≔\mathrm{Worksheet}\left(T\right)\:$

$\mathrm{InsertContent}\left(\mathrm{xml}\right)\:$

$\mathrm{R1}≔\mathrm{Row}\left(''Some\; text.''\,\mathrm{Cell}\left(''More\; text.''\,\mathrm{columnspan}=2\right)\,''Yet\; more\; text.''\right)\:$

$\mathrm{R2}≔\mathrm{Row}\left(''A''\,''B''\,''C''\,''D''\right)\:$

$T≔\mathrm{Table}\left(\mathrm{R1}\,\mathrm{R2}\right)\:$

$c≔\mathrm{select}\left(\mathrm{type}\,\left[\mathrm{op}\left(T\right)\right]\,\mathrm{specfunc}\left(\mathrm{anything}\,\mathrm{`\_XML\_Table-Column`}\right)\right)$

$c≔\left[\mathrm{\_XML\_Table-Column}\left(''separator''=''true''\,''weight''=''100''\right)\,\mathrm{\_XML\_Table-Column}\left(''separator''=''true''\,''weight''=''100''\right)\,\mathrm{\_XML\_Table-Column}\left(''separator''=''true''\,''weight''=''100''\right)\,\mathrm{\_XML\_Table-Column}\left(''separator''=''true''\,''weight''=''100''\right)\right]$

$\mathrm{numelems}\left(c\right)$

$4$

$\mathrm{xml}≔\mathrm{Worksheet}\left(T\right)\:$

$\mathrm{InsertContent}\left(\mathrm{xml}\right)\:$

$R≔\mathrm{Row}\left(\mathrm{`\$`}\left(''Some\; text''\,3\right)\right)\:$

$T≔\mathrm{Table}\left(\mathrm{Column}\left(\right)\,\mathrm{Column}\left(\right)\,\mathrm{Column}\left(\mathrm{separator}=\mathrm{false}\right)\,\mathrm{interior}=\mathrm{group}\,R\,R\right)\:$

$\mathrm{InsertContent}\left(\mathrm{Worksheet}\left(T\right)\right)\:$

$T≔\mathrm{Table}\left(\mathrm{Column}\left(\mathrm{weight}=50\right)\,\mathrm{Column}\left(\right)\,\mathrm{Column}\left(\mathrm{weight}=200\right)\,R\right)\:$

$\mathrm{InsertContent}\left(\mathrm{Worksheet}\left(T\right)\right)\:$

$T≔\mathrm{Table}\left(\mathrm{Column}\left(\mathrm{weight}=3\right)\,\mathrm{Column}\left(\mathrm{weight}=6\right)\,\mathrm{Column}\left(\mathrm{weight}=12\right)\,R\right)\:$

$\mathrm{InsertContent}\left(\mathrm{Worksheet}\left(T\right)\right)\:$

$T≔\mathrm{Table}\left(\mathrm{Column}\left(\mathrm{weight}=1\right)\,\mathrm{Column}\left(\mathrm{weight}=2\right)\,\mathrm{Column}\left(\mathrm{weight}=3\right)\,\mathrm{alignment}=\mathrm{center}\,\mathrm{widthmode}=\mathrm{pixels}\,\mathrm{width}=300\,R\right)\:$

$\mathrm{InsertContent}\left(\mathrm{Worksheet}\left(T\right)\right)\:$

The DocumentTools:-Layout:-Column command was introduced in Maple 2015.

For more information on Maple 2015 changes, see Updates in Maple 2015.