Re: Booktabs equivalent in Context

["Wolfgang Schuster" <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>]

2007/8/9, Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>:
> Quoting Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>:
>
> > 2007/8/9, Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>:
> >> On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
> >>
> >> > 2007/8/9, Hamid Kamrani <hamid.kamrani@gmail.com>:
> >> >> Aditya,
> >> >>
> >> >> In the example you give with CMID you have only two column preambles
> >> >> whereas the table has 3 columns and if one adds the missing preamble
> >> >> then one gets an error. Some how your new code breaks the calculation
> >> >> for number of columns.
> >> >>
> >> >> -Hamid
> >> >
> >> > He forgot only to put a \NC before the \AR.
> >>
> >> Sorry about that. I thought I pasted from a correctly running example.
> >>
> >> Here is another attempt, which I feel is the cleanest way to go about
> >> this whole thing. Right now the skip between the columns is not
> >> configurable, but it should be possible to use the get the value of
> >> the skip.
> >>
> >> The attached code typesets an example that Wolfgang had sent off-list.
> >> I have only changed two lines of the table.tex.
> >>
> >> Aditya
> >
> > Hi Aditya,
> >
> > what do you think about
> >
> > \setuptables
> >  [\c!columndistance=2em]
>
> This goes against the way I understand table macros. With this, you can
> only have equal width columns. In tables, you can specify specific
> widths of specific s and o keys.

look into the tabsatz and boktabs manual and you see all columns in them
have the same distance, it was only meant as a alternative to your hard coded
columndistance in the examples.

If you can do this with another method like the tabskip there nothing
against them.

Wolfgang

> AFAIU, the table macros divide that the specified tabskip by 2, and
> place it in the data column. Since the rule column comes next, the rule
> column automatically gets the same tabskip, so in appearance we the
> specified column width.
>
> This is also the reason why cmidrules do not work. If you specify a
> hrule inside a data column, it spans half of the visual space between
> the columns. What needs to be done is that the glue be added inside a
> local group to the rule column, with the global tabskip set to zero.
>
> The previous solution that I posted adds a 2em tabskip glue to the rule
> column, and a 0pt tabskip glue to the data column. After thinking again
> about it, I think that this is not the right way. There is no need to
> add a 0pt glue to the data column. We can add the glue to the rule
> column inside a group.
>
> I will see if I can get this working.
>
> Aditya
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