Is it possible to extend the width of the Editor in a specific document for the purposes of having a Table that goes past the right border by increasing the right indent?
Yes, I can set the right indent to 32cm, whereas it is around 16cm now (at a set scaling), but I need this for the purpose of a Table that currently has 6 columns and would require 10. This doesn’t appear possible when a Table is introduced to the Editor.
Not that, specifically. Best you could do is change the width of the editor temporarily, as set in the Appearance: Main Editor: Options tab. Probably what would be easiest here is to turn off fixed width entirely for a bit, which will remove the main width constraints and use the entire window (minus whatever margin settings you have, below).
No Fixed Width in play, but the Right Indent marker is still there on the ruler to break (return) the line at the right.
But, if I understand correctly, you’re saying the ruler can’t be set per document, because if I do a temporary change for the purpose of the required columns in a table, when I set it back to the standard the table or certain of its cells will reduce to something illegible. I also know I can reduce all table columns until they’re all equal in size and then increase the percentage for all columns simultaneously, but my font size is already 7 at Editor scale 180%, which is about the smallest I can comfortably read.
I perhaps am not following the question, as how I am thinking of it, the right indent is a formatting control like all the rest, and is thus not only per document, but per paragraph. So long as you don’t routinely run the command to reset formatting to defaults in this one section, it should stick forever, and carry over from one paragraph to the next when writing normally (assuming no use of body styles).
Alright. I get it. Yes, indeed, it’s a paragraph control, but can’t be set when a table is in place to shift the entire workspace width because it then becomes applicable to each table’s cell.
Oh right, tables do interact with the ruler a bit oddly in that sense. I think the overall percentage tally is of more importance, in that if all of the columns add up to 100% it should use all of the available window width dynamically (or display width with fixed-width / page view).
Thus the only way to influence its width is by adjusting that overall sum to something less than 100%. Probably the easiest way of doing that is to make a single-cell table and adjust its cell width until it lines up to where you want it, then divide that by six, ten, or however many columns you need.
Not ideal for precise table design, but personally speaking, that is why I would just leave everything pretty vanilla at 100% and sort out design after compile.
Note that tables that are bigger than the defined page can give odd results after the Compile command. The different output formats handle the situation differently. So be prepared to do some post-Compile tweaking.
I’ll never compile or print the Table. It’s there for plotting purposes. I could use excel as things happen to many characters over a protracted period. It just that I hate typing into Excel where you need to Alt-Enter to create a new line in a cell, and then interact with Scrivener, making it slow and messy. I could do it in OneNote which is an infinite canvas like Scapple, same 2 app constraints. I’ll see.
Infinite canvas mode would be a nice to have in Scrivener.
I’ve settled for two tables with some repeated columns.
