From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/35818 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Aditya Mahajan Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Booktabs equivalent in Context Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 18:23:53 -0400 Message-ID: <20070808182353.5z60n2ipesg88s0o@web.mail.umich.edu> References: <20070803171006.gn644njnhw88sggg@web.mail.umich.edu> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1186611870 11752 80.91.229.12 (8 Aug 2007 22:24:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 22:24:30 +0000 (UTC) To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Aug 09 00:24:27 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IItx5-0002sU-5K for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Aug 2007 00:24:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BA0D201A4; Thu, 9 Aug 2007 00:24:26 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 31703-01-11; Thu, 9 Aug 2007 00:24:13 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A28932018F; Thu, 9 Aug 2007 00:24:13 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 614992018F for ; Thu, 9 Aug 2007 00:24:11 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 31703-01-10 for ; Thu, 9 Aug 2007 00:24:07 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from shawnee.web.itd.umich.edu (shawnee.web.itd.umich.edu [141.211.144.175]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 637DC20059 for ; Thu, 9 Aug 2007 00:24:05 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: (from www@localhost) by shawnee.web.itd.umich.edu (8.12.10/8.12.9) id l78MNr9e008598 for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Wed, 8 Aug 2007 18:23:53 -0400 Original-Received: from wwwgate34.motorola.com (wwwgate34.motorola.com [136.182.158.153]) by web.mail.umich.edu (Horde MIME library) with HTTP; Wed, 08 Aug 2007 18:23:53 -0400 In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) H3 (4.0.5) X-Remote-Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6 X-IMP-Server: 141.211.144.211 X-Originating-IP: 136.182.158.153 X-Originating-User: adityam X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:35818 Archived-At: Quoting Johannes Graumann : > Aditya Mahajan wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> The question of how to get tables equivalent to latex's booktabs >> package has been discussed quite a few times in the past. Booktabs >> package provides (top|mid|bottom)rule commands and a cmidrule command. >> The top and bottom rules are 0.08em thick, the midrule is 0.05em thick, >> and the cmidrules are 0.03em thick. The cmidrules do not extend beyond >> the columns edge. Here is an example of how to do something similar >> using tables in context . >> >> To me this looks exactly similar to the example in the booktabs manual. >> Am I missing something, or is it fair to say that context can generate >> booktabs like tables? > Hello, > > I'm one of the booktab-equivalent requesters and in my case the request is > motivated by the (sadly German-only) > http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/german/tabsatz/tabsatz.pdf > Please compare examples on pages 4 and 5 for the cmidrule functionality I'm > missing in ConTeXt. The clarity you can give classy looking tables with > trimmed cmidrules is even more evident in the example on page 9. There's > lots of more use of this in the document, but it gets too esoteric to be > easily grasped quickly (IMHO). Here is one attempt, which works correctly. Of course the best solution is to forget about the \omit and set the halign preamble correctly. But I have not been able to figure that out yet. \starttext \def\CMID{\normalTABLEshortrule} \unprotect \def\TableNC {\checkTABLEautorow \nextTABLEgrayline \ifnum\currentTABLEcolumn>\maxTABLEcolumn \setTABLEerror\TABLEmissingrow \handleTABLEerror \else \global\advance\currentTABLEcolumn \plusone \ifnum\currentTABLEcolumn=1\relax \normalTABLEquote \else \fancyTABLEquote \fi \fi} \def\fancyTABLEquote {\unskip\!ttRightGlue&\omit\hskip2em&} % " \protect \setuptables[rulethickness=0.03em] \starttable[s0|l|l|] \HL[3] \NC Monat \NC 1965 \NC 1966 \AR \NC \CMID \NC \CMID \NC \CMID \DR \NC September \NC 2000 \NC 1700 \AR \HL[3] \stoptable \stoptext Aditya ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________