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From: Henry House <hajhouse@hajhouse.org>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: creating multirow curly brace in tables to symbolize row span
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2015 10:57:53 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150820175753.GF4486@houseag.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150819210551.GH26883@kip-desktop>

List:

I'm trying to create a table with this effect:

Parcel      |Area
          ⎧ | 1 acre trees
parcel 1  ⎨ | 2 acre vines
          ⎩ | 3 acre open
          ⎧ | 5 acre trees
parcel 2  ⎨ | 6 acre vines
          ⎩ | 4 acre open


In other words, I would like a big curly bracket with leftwards point spanning
three table rows to tell the reader that the leftmost column's entries apply to
a three-row span in the next column (a style often seen in tables in older
books).

I've tried, probably naively, the following approach, using the unicode symbols
for the bracket pieces and alternatively using math-mode symbols found in
http://meeting.contextgarden.net/2011/talks/day3_05_ulrik_opentype/Samples/unimath-symbols.pdf
"Every symbol defined by unicode-math". The symbols are recognized in neither
form, unfortunately.

Any suggestions on how I can either make these symbols render, or a different
approach to achieve my goal?

Complete test document:


\enableregime[utf]\setuppapersize[letter][letter]
\usetypescript[serif,sans,mono][hanging][normal]
\setupalign[hanging]
\usetypescript[modern-base][texnansi]
\setupbodyfont[reset]
\setupbodyfont[modern]
\definetypeface[boldmath][mm][boldmath][modern][default]
\usemodule[cmscbf]
\usemodule[unicode-math]
\setupbodyfont[11pt]

\starttext

\bTABLE
\bTR{}\bTD{}Parcel   \eTD\bTD{}                           \eTD\bTD Area \eTD\eTR%
\bTR{}\bTD{}         \eTD\bTD{}\mathematics{\lbraceuend}  \eTD\bTD 1 \eTD\eTR%
\bTR{}\bTD{}parcel 2 \eTD\bTD{}\mathematics{\lbracemid}   \eTD\bTD 2 \eTD\eTR%
\bTR{}\bTD{}         \eTD\bTD{}\mathematics{\lbracelend}  \eTD\bTD 3 \eTD\eTR%
\eTABLE

\bTABLE
\bTR{}\bTD{}         \eTD\bTD{}⎧                          \eTD\bTD 1 \eTD\eTR%
\bTR{}\bTD{}parcel 4 \eTD\bTD{}⎨                          \eTD\bTD 2 \eTD\eTR%
\bTR{}\bTD{}         \eTD\bTD{}⎩                          \eTD\bTD 3 \eTD\eTR%
\eTABLE

\stoptext



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Henry House
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-08-20 17:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-19 21:05 Bad PDF to text crawlers Kip Warner
2015-08-19 21:35 ` Peter Münster
2015-08-20 16:43   ` Kip Warner
2015-08-20 17:57 ` Henry House [this message]
2015-08-20 18:05   ` creating multirow curly brace in tables to symbolize row span Aditya Mahajan

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