Forum:Timeline Aide (table formatting)

http://universaltriumvirate.wikia.com/wiki/User:Stavrok/Sandbox#Adjusted_for_Mid-trimesters - On this page, in the section "Adjusted for Mid-Trimesters" is a table I'm working on to make a timeline of various officeholders over time.

I've split it by trimester and each trimester (a trimester is four months, a third of a year) has 8 columns under it so that I can adjust for if someone left office in the middle of the trimester. For example, "Zerouh" left in the middle of 2011 trimester 2 so he spans only 20 columns (8+8+4). That makes sense, but the problem is when I get to the next step, Ogamon was in office from the middle of the trimester where "Zerouh" left until 1 month into the second trimester of 2012 which would be 22 total (4+8+8+2) but when I try to make him span 22 columns it still shows up as him halfway through 2012 2 which would be equal to spanning 24 columns. Stavrok should be shown to take the office one fourth into the trimester but it shows him taking office one half into the trimester 2012 2.

The issue also exists in the next row down. Agent and Ehtya equally split 2011 3 but in reality Ehtya should only have the last eighth of that trimester, but it's not working there either.

Can someone help me with this problem? Am I doing something wrong with the colspans? Did I make some error, I've been struggling over what I could have done wrong for the last two hours but I can't find it out.

If it's not going to work, is there a way to get my desired result?

03:29, November 19, 2012 (UTC)