Re: Tables documentation

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 04:43 PM 4/30/01 +0100, Duncan Hothersall wrote:
>I'm having some difficulty getting my head around the tables macros (the
>existing package, not the new automatic ones). Is there any English
>documentation for this part of ConTeXt, beyond that contained in the
>Beginner's Guide?
>
>One specific question concerns the p format key. I find that most of my
>tables need to allow for text to flow into paragraphs within the cells, but
>I have only succeeded in putting one p format key into a tabulate
>environment. More than one p in a specification seems to break something,
>and I can't seem to get it to work at all within a table. Is a specification
>like [|p|p|p|] supposed to work?
>
>If there is a manual, or a FAQ, that would be great.

the problem is that the TaBlE manual is not free, but you can use the
tabulate documentation (up to date document) since it has a compatible
interface, however, in \starttable you *need* to specify the width, 

p(3cm) 

Also, looking into thrd-tbl may belp

[some day i will rewrite this package into the context way and document it)

Hans
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