From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
Cc: ConTeXt mailing list <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: choice for table material
Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2001 22:08:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20010704220812.0183ca20@server-1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20010704175918.00a9e350@public.uni-hamburg.de>
At 06:23 PM 7/4/01 +0200, Eckhart Guthöhrlein wrote:
>I am a bit confused about the different possibilities to typeset tables, so
>let me first outline how I have understood things. If a table may be split
>across pages, tabulate is the one to choose.
right
If not, there are two
wrong, you can also split \starttable .. [use \starttables instead
>possibilities: table and TABLE. TABLE is the most recent development. Is it
>principally more advanced and preferrable to table, which would man that
wrong, it is advanced, but of a different kind, it acts a bit like
automatic hml tables, but (currently) is slow
>table is there for backward compatibility reasons only, or are there
>effects which can be achieved with table, but not with TABLE?
there are some, yet undocumented ones that have to do with advanced
backgrounds, although one can do interesting things with TABLE too
btw, i will rewrite table from scratch some day
Hans
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-07-04 20:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-07-04 16:23 Eckhart Guthöhrlein
2001-07-04 20:08 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2001-07-04 20:32 ` Eckhart Guthöhrlein
2001-07-04 20:21 ` Eckhart Guthöhrlein
2001-07-04 21:04 ` Hans Hagen
2001-07-05 9:50 ` Numbered definitions Tarik Kara
2001-07-05 10:40 ` Eckhart Guthöhrlein
2001-07-05 12:13 ` Tarik Kara
2001-07-05 21:43 ` Hans Hagen
2001-07-05 11:24 ` Hans Hagen
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