From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/48115 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "George N. White III" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Simplified input for natural tables Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 10:35:37 -0300 Message-ID: <22af238a0903090635q7b9d7cdeo196dcc043ff424c2@mail.gmail.com> References: <1C61EC31-CF0E-4A26-9EA9-2B26C14116CD@gmail.com> <49B3F93F.5080707@wxs.nl> <87ocwbhoyc.fsf@cordelia.devereux.me.uk> <49B41021.5090000@wxs.nl> <87k56zhlun.fsf@cordelia.devereux.me.uk> 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: ger.gmane.org 1236605786 2232 80.91.229.12 (9 Mar 2009 13:36:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 13:36:26 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Mar 09 14:37:42 2009 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 1Lgffd-0005U7-6o for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:37:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8755C1FBEB; Mon, 9 Mar 2009 14:36:04 +0100 (CET) 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 04341-01-3; Mon, 9 Mar 2009 14:35:46 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C5481FBB9; Mon, 9 Mar 2009 14:35:46 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EF9E1FBB9 for ; Mon, 9 Mar 2009 14:35:45 +0100 (CET) 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 04341-01-2 for ; Mon, 9 Mar 2009 14:35:38 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from filter2-ams.mf.surf.net (filter2-ams.mf.surf.net [192.87.102.70]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D497D1FB77 for ; Mon, 9 Mar 2009 14:35:38 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from el-out-1112.google.com (el-out-1112.google.com [209.85.162.182]) by filter2-ams.mf.surf.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id n29DZbLq030757 for ; Mon, 9 Mar 2009 14:35:38 +0100 Original-Received: by el-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id m34so847061ele.20 for ; Mon, 09 Mar 2009 06:35:37 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=iG5sc5rSQ7iJ6eRdNXxepTyKP0FHNZG55NHlbdvWC1o=; b=TMDhpVH8d6Qo6TfmpNqf9nBgTvoSY7Bt1w2EF1U4qcdM1vwxEWoNWFzooJ1RyP5Vwd RAW7CGL4fUMHPfuK8BdVnn+TXKBpoGXMqjum+lMg/hi4glLSLMvagmdXBLmLrr9PifS2 aJN8PmF1V64OYsLS0uwPVa54DhxgCGFTMb4w8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=da9aHKLO5O3v1yr63WCDn9/AXtCbSN80qHXi2/rw06TNvHQutHUL6mSG5CgwLEGKVP 2hZO19KGIFMLjXTlseMNOYeroxpfaiirFTyglFDVqTX+lBEMketshnSHfzm0gb7ChbBb 4pMCRIDMgMTjy4cPOo+ehuRg+C8Whkm2RekeY= Original-Received: by 10.151.112.12 with SMTP id p12mr10818909ybm.46.1236605737327; Mon, 09 Mar 2009 06:35:37 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87k56zhlun.fsf@cordelia.devereux.me.uk> X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=209.85.162.182; country=US; region=CA; city=Mountain View; postalcode=94043; latitude=37.4192; longitude=-122.0574; metrocode=807; areacode=650; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=37.4192,-122.0574&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 190683787 - 3ec8277f9b28 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 192.87.102.70 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 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:48115 Archived-At: On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 4:10 PM, John Devereux 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 Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________