confused on which table

confused on which table

[Paul Tremblay]

I'm looking over the table overview at the wiki garden:

http://contextgarden.net/Tables_Overview

It states that:

"ConTeXt has a whole bunch of possibilities to typeset tables. Not each
provides everything you may need, and the older ones are deprecated."

Yet on looking at all of the different types of tables, I can't exactly
see which ones are deprecated. Are any deprecated? 

I also see that there are three different types of tables for spanning
across pages ("\starttablehead", "\bTABLE", and "\startlinetable"). Do
each of these have strengths and weaknesses? 

Perhaps I could make a table for each type of tables, if someone could
guide me:

name   tabulate     TaBlE    etable ETC
===================================

Use    short 
       table

Notes  does not
       have vertical
       lines

ETC.

Thanks for whoever did this wiki page, since it is helping me get
started.

Paul

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Re: confused on which table

[Henning Hraban Ramm]

Am 09.04.2005 um 09:33 schrieb Paul Tremblay:

> Yet on looking at all of the different types of tables, I can't exactly
> see which ones are deprecated. Are any deprecated?

Hard to say (even if I wrote that text).
Better don't use "table(s)" any more.

> I also see that there are three different types of tables for spanning
> across pages ("\starttablehead", "\bTABLE", and "\startlinetable"). Do
> each of these have strengths and weaknesses?

TABLE should be actual best, linetable will be best sometime, but is
still hardly documented (please prove me wrong).


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Re: confused on which table

[Paul Tremblay]

On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 01:26:02PM +0200, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
> 
> TABLE should be actual best, linetable will be best sometime, but is
> still hardly documented (please prove me wrong).
> 

Unfortunately, I also couldn't find documentation on the linetable. The
actual module says that it is experimental. 

Could you give me an example of how TABLE can put the same heading on
the top of each page. Hopefully, it can!

Paul

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Re: confused on which table

[Henning Hraban Ramm]

Am 10.04.2005 um 22:40 schrieb Paul Tremblay:
>> TABLE should be actual best, linetable will be best sometime, but is
>> still hardly documented (please prove me wrong).
> Unfortunately, I also couldn't find documentation on the linetable. The
> actual module says that it is experimental.

There's those few samples at
http://www.contextgarden.net/Linetable
and some remarks the source at
http://source.contextgarden.net/core-ltb.tex

> Could you give me an example of how TABLE can put the same heading on
> the top of each page. Hopefully, it can!

Hm, perhaps...
in http://source.contextgarden.net/core-ntb.tex
there's TABLE(head|foot|body|next) and (b|e)TH, maybe that does what 
you need (didn't try)


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Re: confused on which table

[Paul Tremblay]

On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 11:23:33PM +0200, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
> 
> There's those few samples at
> http://www.contextgarden.net/Linetable
> and some remarks the source at
> http://source.contextgarden.net/core-ltb.tex

I've seen these, but the information isn't really enough to get me
started. If someone could help me out, I'd be willing to try to
document them.

> Hm, perhaps...
> in http://source.contextgarden.net/core-ntb.tex
> there's TABLE(head|foot|body|next) and (b|e)TH, maybe that does what 
> you need (didn't try)
> 

I tried:

\bTABLEhead
...
\eTABLEhead
\bTABLEbody
\eTABLEbody

This only puts the heading at the top of the first page. There may be
some option to set in \setupTABLE.

However, the module does state:

% the section setup does not work yet, data needs to be stored,
% i.e.each row should know if it's a head/body/foot, and there
% should be \setupTABLE[head]... and alike


Thanks

Paul


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Re: confused on which table

[Hans Hagen]

Paul Tremblay wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 11:23:33PM +0200, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
> 
>>There's those few samples at
>>http://www.contextgarden.net/Linetable
>>and some remarks the source at
>>http://source.contextgarden.net/core-ltb.tex
> 
> 
> I've seen these, but the information isn't really enough to get me
> started. If someone could help me out, I'd be willing to try to
> document them.
> 
> 
>>Hm, perhaps...
>>in http://source.contextgarden.net/core-ntb.tex
>>there's TABLE(head|foot|body|next) and (b|e)TH, maybe that does what 
>>you need (didn't try)
>>
> 
> 
> I tried:
> 
> \bTABLEhead
> ...
> \eTABLEhead
> \bTABLEbody
> \eTABLEbody
> 
> This only puts the heading at the top of the first page. There may be
> some option to set in \setupTABLE.

compare the settngs

split=yes
split=repeat

there is also

\bTABLEnext
\eTABLEnext

for following pages

Hans

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Re: confused on which table

[Paul Tremblay]

On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 12:11:04AM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
> 
> compare the settngs
> 
> split=yes
> split=repeat

Thanks. I've included this in my documentation:


http://getfo.sourceforge.net/context_xml/page4.html

> 
> there is also
> 
> \bTABLEnext
> \eTABLEnext

Not sure what this means! Any hint would help the documentation.

Paul


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Re: confused on which table

[Hans Hagen]

Paul Tremblay wrote:

>>there is also
>>
>>\bTABLEnext
>>\eTABLEnext
> 
> 
> Not sure what this means! Any hint would help the documentation.

ther're alternative head's for split off pages >1

Hans

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Re: confused on which table

[VnPenguin]

On Apr 12, 2005 12:39 AM, Paul Tremblay <phthenry@iglou.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 12:11:04AM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
> >
> > compare the settngs
> >
> > split=yes
> > split=repeat
> 
> Thanks. I've included this in my documentation:
> 
> http://getfo.sourceforge.net/context_xml/page4.html
> 

In your page, section "Customizing TABLE"

sub-section "customization options": the table "Possible options for
setuoTABLE" has some typo :)
width=<dimen> --> set height ?
"set" & "sets" ?
 

Thank you

Re: confused on which table

[Paul Tremblay]

On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 08:01:08AM +0100, VnPenguin wrote:
> 
> In your page, section "Customizing TABLE"
> 
> sub-section "customization options": the table "Possible options for
> setuoTABLE" has some typo :)
> width=<dimen> --> set height ?
> "set" & "sets" ?
>  
> 

Thanks. I corrected the height typo, and realize you also pointed to a
"sets" typo. 


Paul

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