Re: Simplified input for natural tables

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

On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
> Aditya Mahajan wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, 8 Mar 2009, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Hans,
>>>
>>> natural tables are perfect to create tables with a fixed size for the
>>> cells but the syntax requires sometimes a lot of typing for small content and
>>> takes to many lines of code in the document.
>
> less code and more efficient too ... can you test this?
>
> \def\startTABLE
>  {\dosingleempty\dostartTABLE}
>
> \def\dostartTABLE[#1]%
>  {\bgroup
>   \bTABLE[#1]%
>   \let\NC\doTABLENC
>   \let\NR\doTABLENR
>   \let\bTR\relax
>   \let\bTD\relax
>   \let\bTH\relax
>   \let\bTN\relax}
>
> \def\stopTABLE
>  {\eTABLE
>   \egroup}
>
> \newconditional\inTABLEnc
>
> \unexpanded\def\doTABLENR
>  {\eTR
>   \setfalse\inTABLEnc}
>
> \unexpanded\def\doTABLENC
>  {\futurelet\next\dodoTABLENC}
>
> \def\dodoTABLENC
>  {\ifx\next\doTABLENR \else
>     \expandafter\dododoTABLENC
>   \fi}
>
> \long\def\dododoTABLENC#1\NC
>  {\ifconditional\inTABLEnc\else\settrue\inTABLEnc\parseTR[][]\fi
>   \parseTD[][]#1\eTD\NC}

Can you change this to

\long\def\dododoTABLENC#1\NC
 {\ifconditional\inTABLEnc\else\settrue\inTABLEnc\parseTR[][]\fi
  \dodoubleempty\parseTD#1\eTD\NC}

I want to be able to give argument with \NC too, it's important for me
to be able to use spanned columns/rows in the simple form.

Wolfgang
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