From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/55090 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Design Department Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Table macro choices? Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2009 14:03:26 -0700 Message-ID: <2B0BF691-94C4-491E-85A1-5AC4806188C2@enquora.com> References: <334EDAFA-BA7F-4FBB-9C32-C3628C8C00A1@enquora.com> <0D54D4B2-A93C-4B3D-BD8A-56696C4C5380@enquora.com> <44132437-F12F-4C08-B547-F01F9DE645EB@googlemail.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1077) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1260133431 9291 80.91.229.12 (6 Dec 2009 21:03:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2009 21:03:51 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sun Dec 06 22:03:43 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NHOGa-0004vJ-Fd for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Dec 2009 22:03:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6A0AC9BB5; Sun, 6 Dec 2009 22:03:39 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id qAbvxg2jwAFz; Sun, 6 Dec 2009 22:03:36 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 018D4C9BA5; Sun, 6 Dec 2009 22:03:36 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8EE8C9BA5 for ; Sun, 6 Dec 2009 22:03:34 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id GK1-69dM1FPF for ; Sun, 6 Dec 2009 22:03:31 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mail-pw0-f55.google.com (mail-pw0-f55.google.com [209.85.160.55]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69E1BC9AF9 for ; Sun, 6 Dec 2009 22:03:31 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by pwj2 with SMTP id 2so300130pwj.34 for ; Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:03:30 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.114.237.7 with SMTP id k7mr9646207wah.151.1260133410097; Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:03:30 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from ernie-wireless.local (S010600131035e589.cg.shawcable.net [70.75.197.71]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 23sm4595526pzk.4.2009.12.06.13.03.28 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:03:29 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <44132437-F12F-4C08-B547-F01F9DE645EB@googlemail.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1077) X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:55090 Archived-At: > The best I can do. Thanks Wolfgang. At first glance, it appears to cover the essentials. I'll need to hack on it for a few days to test the minor requirements that aren't so obvious in the sample PDF, but this gets me going again. A particular advantage (if I'm interpreting this layout correctly) is avoiding the use of column spans for header and footer material (other than the actual column headings). This report has a number of different tabular layouts that I didn't show you, each with unique column counts. Much more reliable if it isn't necessary to watch colspan values in the meta-data sections (which should really be includes.) I would think the general requirement here isn't that unusual for certain types of technical reports. This report is for a regulatory compliance application. If printed pages within a single report are ever separated, it is essential that the meta-data for the inspection be available on each page, not just the first or last. The same must be true for many scientific and technical layouts. I particularly need to get my head around what's different from my initial approach. Once again, thanks. I'll report on results in a few days for anyone following this. cheers, david ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________