From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/4616 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Tables documentation Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 17:31:28 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20010504173128.019df880@server-1> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035395267 27193 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:47:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:47:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "ConTeXt mailing list" Original-To: "Duncan Hothersall" In-Reply-To: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:4616 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:4616 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------