Automatic line-breaking and multi-column cells

[fefrei]

tabularray's X columns, fortunately, break lines automatically (and tabularray generally copes really well with multi-line cells).

However, I sometimes find myself having long multi-column cells (spanning X columns, typically). Unfortunately, these do not auto-break, causing the table to get wider than expected.

Here's a small example:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{tabularray}

\begin{document}
    \lipsum[1]

    \begin{tblr}{colspec={XXXX}, hlines, vlines}
        One & Two & Three & Four plus a lot of text that is nicely line-wrapped automatically \\
        One & \SetCell[c=2]{c} Two plus a lot of text that does not break automatically & & Four \\
    \end{tblr}

    \lipsum[2]
\end{document}

There obviously are many ways around this, but I only found ways that are somewhat hacky, requiring manually specifying widths or manually breaking lines. Is there some nice way to handle these situations?

[lvjr]

You may use hspan=minimal option. See the manual.

[fefrei]

This manual you mention holds many secrets. I shall consult it more! May this discussion guide more truth-seekers there.

(In all seriousness: Thanks, this is exactly what I was looking for, I just wasn't looking in the right places. Thanks for the pointer!)

[abstractionmage]

Thanks, but I would nonetheless expect tabularray to auto-break long multi-column cells by default when the table would otherwise exceed its specified width.