Re: Table macro choices?

[Design Department <design@enquora.com>]

On 2009-12-05, at 7:55 AM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

> 
> Am 04.12.2009 um 22:58 schrieb Design Department:
> 
>> Earlier this year I attempted to set tabular material using ConTeXt while meeting *all* the following requirements:
>>> Some columns need fixed width, content must wrap to multiple lines
>>> Multi-page tables
>>> Column headings must repeat on every page
>>> Additional header information is required on every page 
>>> Additional footer information containing tabular text and graphics is required on every page
>>> Forced page breaks on arbitrary selected rows
>>> Horizontal rules between specified groups of rows
>> 
>> I was unable to meet all these requirements and reverted to LaTeX. It works, but I prefer ConTeXt and the LaTeX version takes a painfully long time to converge on optimal column widths. I'm now using TeXLive 2009, rather than 2008 - has anything changed in ConTeXt that will meet these requirements?
> 
> Can you show a example from the LaTeX output.

For Walfgang, and anyone else who has thoughts, here's a sample PDF.
http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B3ld3P7qGRnwOTRmOWJhYTEtMGQ1Yy00ZGE4LTk0NmQtYzk3NmJlYWIzM2Zh&hl=en

The main point is that the tabular material runs from just a single to several hundred rows and each page *must* contain both the header and footer explanations associated with the table. Normally the pages are broken at a fixed increment of rows depending on the type of data, usually 20 or 32 per page, but other values are possible. For good measure, field technicians often want a forced page break at an arbitrary row position.

Two of the table columns contain data which may wrap to multiple lines, as illustrated.

Is all this possible without writing a new tabular macro? I could get close, but couldn't get the table footer repeating on every page or the forced page breaks. That was using the TeXLive 2008 distribution.


david
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