natural tables to extreme tables

natural tables to extreme tables

[Thomas A. Schmitz]

Hi,

for my experimenting with tables: is there a way to set up individual 
columns in xtables? Maybe I'm thick tonight, but I couldn't find 
anything in the manual or the source. If I have this setup

\setupTABLE [frame=on,split=repeat]
\setupTABLE [column] [1] [width=0.7cm,align=left]
\setupTABLE [column] [2] [width=0.5cm,align=left]
\setupTABLE [column] [3] [width=6cm,align={normal,verytolerant,stretch}]
\setupTABLE [column] [4] [width=8cm,align={normal,verytolerant,stretch}]
\setupTABLE [column] [5] [width=1cm,align={normal,verytolerant,stretch}]

how would this translate into \setupxtable?

Thomas
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Re: natural tables to extreme tables

[Hans Hagen]

On 2/28/2018 10:28 PM, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> for my experimenting with tables: is there a way to set up individual 
> columns in xtables? Maybe I'm thick tonight, but I couldn't find 
> anything in the manual or the source. If I have this setup
> 
> \setupTABLE [frame=on,split=repeat]
> \setupTABLE [column] [1] [width=0.7cm,align=left]
> \setupTABLE [column] [2] [width=0.5cm,align=left]
> \setupTABLE [column] [3] [width=6cm,align={normal,verytolerant,stretch}]
> \setupTABLE [column] [4] [width=8cm,align={normal,verytolerant,stretch}]
> \setupTABLE [column] [5] [width=1cm,align={normal,verytolerant,stretch}]
> 
> how would this translate into \setupxtable?

page 26 of the xtable manual ... you define tagged settings and can use 
these tag for cells and rows

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Re: natural tables to extreme tables

[Thomas A. Schmitz]

On 02/28/2018 11:35 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
> page 26 of the xtable manual ... you define tagged settings and can use 
> these tag for cells and rows

OK Hans, I see that, thanks a lot! But it still means I have to tag the 
cells/rows? As always, I'm playing with xml and Lua and am trying to 
write some universal code that allows me to try out different table 
mechanisms. Just to explain (don't spend time on this, I'm just playing 
around): I collect my table settings like this:

\startsetups section_table
\setupframedtablecolumn [1] [width=0.7cm,align=left]
\setupTABLE [column] [1] [width=0.7cm,align=left]
\stopsetups

In my Lua file, I start tables like this:

starttable()
startrow()
startcell() etc.

and can switch from one mechanism to another by having these aliases:

starttable = context.startframedtable
starttable = context.bTABLE
starttable  = context.startembeddedxtable

and commenting out the mechanisms that I don't need. But it looks like 
the xtable needs additional arguments to work...

Thanks, and all best

Thomas
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