Nested colspanx and rowspanx don't work

[mangkoran]

First of all, thank you for your work (and other contributors) on this library. I just started to learn Typst recently, and currently I am in the middle of writing my thesis using Typst and found this library which helps me a lot.

I would like to nest colspanx and rowspanx. However, I encountered error.

#tablex(
  columns: (2fr, 1fr, 2fr, 1fr),
  colspanx(4)(rowspanx(2)[a]),
)

I followed the example here.

[PgBiel]

Hello,

Within Typst's syntax, you can write either function(a, b), function(a, [b]) or function(a)[b] (the last one being a shorthand for the previous one). function(a)(b) would first call function(a) and then attempt to call its result as a function with the parameter b. Here, thus, you are calling colspanx(4) (which fails because it requires content) and then trying to call its result as a function with the single argument rowspanx(2)[a].

Therefore, what you meant to write is colspanx(4, rowspanx(2)[a]). Hope this helps!

[mangkoran]

Thank you for your reply! I have tried it and it now compiles without error. I think the documentation should be updated then. Let me know if you need help for it 😉

However, it is somewhat not what I expect.

#tablex(
  columns: (auto, auto, auto, auto),
  colspanx(4, rowspanx(3)[ONE]),
  [TWO], [THREE], [FOUR], [FIVE],
)

It seems "ONE" is stacked in place, which is not what I expect.

[PgBiel]

Thank you for your reply! I have tried it and it now compiles without error. I think the documentation should be updated then. Let me know if you need help for it 😉

Thanks for pointing it out! Seems like a mistake was made 😅

Feel free to open a PR to main suggesting a fix! Just click README.md, press the edit button at the top (GitHub will create a fork and a branch for you), edit the line, save and create the pull request!

However, it is somewhat not what I expect.

(snip)

#tablex(
  columns: (auto, auto, auto, auto),
  colspanx(4, rowspanx(3)[ONE]),
  [TWO], [THREE], [FOUR], [FIVE],
)

It seems "ONE" is stacked in place, which is not what I expect.

This seems like a bug; can you open an issue for this? Thanks! 😄

In the meantime you can manually assign sizes to each row (note that you have 4 rows) with rows: 2em for example (if they all have the same size) or rows: (0pt, 0pt, 2em, auto) or something similar.