newbie tabulate question

newbie tabulate question

[Thomas A.Schmitz]

This is probably an easy one, but I couldn't figure it out: I want to 
set up a tabulation with a whitespace of 0.5 lines between rows. But no 
matter where I put my \blank, the tabulation always appears as packed. 
Thanks for your help! (Is there any more elaborate docu on tabulate 
than the three pages in the manual and the few lines in core-tbl.tex?)
Thomas

Re: newbie tabulate question

[Hans Hagen]

At 11:37 14/09/2003 +0200, you wrote:
>This is probably an easy one, but I couldn't figure it out: I want to set 
>up a tabulation with a whitespace of 0.5 lines between rows. But no matter 
>where I put my \blank, the tabulation always appears as packed. Thanks for 
>your help! (Is there any more elaborate docu on tabulate than the three 
>pages in the manual and the few lines in core-tbl.tex?)

\starttabulate
\NC test \NC test \NC \NR \TB
\NC test \NC test \NC \NR
\NC test \NC test \NC \NR
\NC test \NC test \NC \NR
\stoptabulate

\TB == tabulate blank

Hans
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Re: newbie tabulate question

[Thomas A.Schmitz]

Hans,

thanks for your reply. I works with your minimal example, but not with 
my file. When I try this

\setuptabulate[|w(.3\textwidth)|p|]

\starttabulate

\NC arrghl \NC barrghl \NC \NR \TB

\stoptabulate

I get this error:

check          : missing or ungrouped '=' after '|w(.3\tekstbreedte 
)|p|' in li
ne 53 (@@tttabulate::)
Runaway argument?
! Paragraph ended before \complexorsimpleTable was complete.
<to be read again>
                    \par
\tabulatecontent ...nn, barrghl \NC \NR \TB \par
                                                   \processtabulate 
...sa \crcr \fulltabulatecontent
                                                   \crcr }}\ifnum 
\nofautotab...
l.72 \stoptabulate

?

Any idea what this could mean?

Re: newbie tabulate question

[Willi Egger]

Hi Thomas,

> set up a tabulation with a whitespace of 0.5 lines between rows. But no

Once upon a time I made a note in the article by Hans Hagen published in the
MAPS 22, 1999. The article deals with all kind of possibilities of the
\starttabulate \stoptabulate environment.

The note is: \TB[medium]

This command inserts blank between tabulate rows.

The \setuptabulate[] command has an option inner=command. Inner is executed
before the first column is typset. - May be this is also an option for your
problem.


Willi

Re: newbie tabulate question

[Thomas A.Schmitz]

Willi,

thanks, you made me discover MAPS, which I had not known before! Seems 
to be a lot of interesting stuff in there, and thank god I was born in 
Aachen, so Dutch isn't too difficult for me... But alas, the module 
must have changed since 1999--not even the minimal examples from the 
article you mentioned work. \setuptabulate[inner={\blank[big]}] gives a 
blank line before my first row, but not between rows. Mmmh - maybe a 
bug in core-tbl.tex? Probably Hans is the only one to know...
Best

Thomas

Re: newbie tabulate question

[Hans Hagen]

At 09:16 15/09/2003 +0200, you wrote:
>Hans,
>
>thanks for your reply. I works with your minimal example, but not with my 
>file. When I try this
>
>\setuptabulate[|w(.3\textwidth)|p|]

this setup command expects key/value pairs, and since the = is missing, tex 
sees a \textwidth (being a dimension register) and therefore expects some 
assignment

Hans

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Re: newbie tabulate question

[Patrick Gundlach]

"Thomas A.Schmitz" <thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de> writes:

> thanks, you made me discover MAPS, which I had not known before! Seems
> to be a lot of interesting stuff in there, 

Indeed, the MAPS is always a pleasure to read.

> and thank god I was born in Aachen, so Dutch isn't too difficult for
> me... 

I was born in France, but french is definitely giving me a hard time
when reading.

> But alas, the module must have changed since 1999--not even the
> minimal examples from the article you mentioned work.
> \setuptabulate[inner={\blank[big]}] gives a blank line before my
> first row, but not between rows. Mmmh - maybe a bug in core-tbl.tex?

This does not contradict the article in the MAPS 22. 


Do you have your problems solved?

Patrick
-- 
Silent is the goldfish in its bowl

Re: Re: newbie tabulate question

[Thomas A.Schmitz]

I feel like a complete fool now. I had given up, assuming it couldn't 
be done. When your post arrived, I had a last look at my file to copy 
the error message into this mail--and now it works! I guess what I did 
wrong was to REPLACE the \NR with \TB instead of ADDING it. So for 
whoever might find it useful: this works:

\starttabulate[|w=0.3\textwidth|p|]
\NC arrggl \NC barrgl \NC \NR \TB[big]
\NC barrgl \NC arrgl  \NC \NR \TB[big]
\stoptabulate

Little by little, I'm learning how to use this wonderful tool.

Re: Re: newbie tabulate question

[Thomas A.Schmitz]

I feel like a complete fool now. I had given up, assuming it couldn't 
be done. When your post arrived, I had a last look at my file to copy 
the error message into this mail--and now it works! I guess what I did 
wrong was to REPLACE the \NR with \TB instead of ADDING it. So for 
whoever might find it useful: this works:

\starttabulate[|w=0.3\textwidth|p|]
\NC arrggl \NC barrgl \NC \NR \TB[big]
\NC barrgl \NC arrgl  \NC \NR \TB[big]
\stoptabulate

Little by little, I'm learning how to use this wonderful tool.