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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: processing very big tables
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 17:07:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <15e95857-8de2-0bb6-1047-baa0dd7caafd@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c2672bda-3c5c-dba4-9b21-a593ebcf3e52@uni-bonn.de>

On 4/10/2017 4:25 PM, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
> On 09.04.2017 15:57, Hans Hagen wrote:
>>
>> \starttext
>>
>> \setuplinetable[n=2,lines=25]
>> \setuplinetable[c][1][width=6cm] %
>> ,background=color,backgroundcolor=red,color=white]
>> \setuplinetable[c][1][width=6cm] %
>> ,background=color,backgroundcolor=red,color=white]
>> \setuplinetable[1][all][background=color,backgroundcolor=white]
>>
>> \dontcomplain
>>
>> \startlinetable
>>     \dorecurse{100}{
>>         \dorecurse{100}{
>>             \NC aaa \NC test test test  test \NC \NR
>>         }
>>     }
>> \stoplinetable
>>
>> \page
>
> Alright, I experimented a bit and am back with questions I couldn't
> solve by looking at the source:
>
> 1. How does the parameter lines=NUMBER work? If I set it, I get very
> weird page breaks in some locations and lines that are printed above
> each other in other places. When I leave it out, the table isn't typeset
> at all. I can't find the right parameter to have the table fill the
> entire page.

don't set it then (line tables are actually able to span pages 
horizontally)

> 2. Is it possible to get horizontal and vertical lines?

hm, currently not, but i can probably add some features

Hans


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  reply	other threads:[~2017-04-10 15:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-09 11:20 Thomas A. Schmitz
2017-04-09 13:57 ` Hans Hagen
2017-04-09 14:53   ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2017-04-11  8:02     ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2017-04-11 14:17       ` Alan Braslau
2017-04-11 17:35         ` Hans Hagen
2017-04-10 14:25   ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2017-04-10 15:07     ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2017-04-10 15:20       ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2017-04-11  9:53       ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2017-04-11 10:27         ` Thomas A. Schmitz

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