From: "George N. White III" <gnwiii@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Simplified input for natural tables
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 10:35:37 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <22af238a0903090635q7b9d7cdeo196dcc043ff424c2@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k56zhlun.fsf@cordelia.devereux.me.uk>
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 4:10 PM, John Devereux <john@devereux.me.uk> wrote:
> [...]
> I find that writing documents for context - once you get used to it -
> is much nicer than using a wordprocessor.
>
> But the process of entering tables remains tedious and error prone,
> compared to e.g. the Word equivalent that many will be used to.
Many of my tables are results from some numerical computation, I usually
write a short program to print the data in the required ConTeXt/LaTeX
format. The others I try to find some similar existing table and update
the text.
--
George N. White III <aa056@chebucto.ns.ca>
Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-08 15:24 Wolfgang Schuster
2009-03-08 16:34 ` Aditya Mahajan
2009-03-08 16:58 ` Hans Hagen
2009-03-08 18:03 ` John Devereux
2009-03-08 18:36 ` Hans Hagen
2009-03-08 19:10 ` John Devereux
2009-03-09 13:35 ` George N. White III [this message]
2009-03-12 10:57 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2009-03-09 12:15 ` Mojca Miklavec
2009-03-08 19:26 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2009-03-08 19:50 ` Hans Hagen
2009-03-12 17:14 Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
2009-03-12 18:05 ` Wolfgang Schuster
[not found] <mailman.19.1236882597.12697.ntg-context@ntg.nl>
2009-03-12 19:51 ` Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
2009-03-12 20:06 ` Aditya Mahajan
2009-03-12 20:19 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2009-03-13 22:13 ` Mohamed Bana
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