Re: TABLE: spacing, before/after

["Eckhart Guthöhrlein" <eckhart.guthoehrlein@uni-bielefeld.de>]

On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 at 15:43:57-0400, Paul Tremblay wrote:
> > Well, maybe it will be possible for Hans to include support for the
> > missing features in a future release. To sum it up once again, what I
> > am missing:
> > - control over column and row spacing
> > - material before/after a cell, e.g. \setupTABLE[row][first][before=bla]
> > - command hooks like \setupTABLE[1][3][hook=\dowithentry]
> 
> I'm not sure what hooks are! I assume the before could be something
> like \blankspace? 

Hook means that the table cell contents are passed to the specified
command as an argument. You could use \uppercased for example to
capitalize an entry.
And indeed, I was thinking of controlling horizontal spacing by saying
something like before=\hskip1em.
I really do hope that natural tables will be further developed, since
these are the only things I can see that are available only using the
older mechanisms. And natural tables can do so many additional cool
things that I don't want to use anything else.

-- 
Eckhart