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Administrative information: bad and good examples of tables

Administrative information: bad and good examples of tables

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Here is a bad example of a table, generated by pasting a table directly from Word:

CAI:

15.00

DOW:

09.50

HOM:

09.30

MU: 

11.25

SE:

14.50

CC:

09.40

ED

09.00

JE:

15.25

N:

11.20

SID:

09.00

CHR:

09.05

EM:

10.00

JN:

09.20

PEM:

10.55

T:

10.40

CHU:

14.25

F:

15.35

K:

11.10

PET:

12.00

TH:

15.15

CL:

09.30

G:

10.25

LC:

09.50

Q:

12.10

W:

11.25

CTH:

14.15

HH:

11.10

M:

11.35

R:

11.45

 

 

Here is an equivalent table, optimised to work well in Drupal, using the rules described here.  In this case, the table has no width parameters, because it is naturally rather skinny.  The pdf version spreads the table across the page, but still looks OK.

College Time   College Time
CAI: 10.40   K: 11.10
CC: 9.40   LC: 9.50
CHR: 9.05   M: 11.35
CHU: 14.25   MU:  11.25
CL: 9.30   N: 11.20
CTH: 14.15   PEM: 10.55
DOW: 9.50   PET: 12.00
ED 9.00   Q: 12.10
EM: 10.00   R: 15.15
F: 15.35   SE: 14.50
G: 10.25   SID: 9.00
HH: 11.10   T: 15.00
HOM: 9.30   TH: 15.15
JE: 15.25   W: 11.25
JN: 9.20      

 

Last updated on 08/12/2017 10:53