From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/4929 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: choice for table material Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2001 22:08:12 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20010704220812.0183ca20@server-1> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20010704175918.00a9e350@public.uni-hamburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035395560 29898 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:52:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:52:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ConTeXt mailing list Original-To: Eckhart =?iso-8859-1?Q?Guth=F6hrlein?= In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20010704175918.00a9e350@public.uni-hamburg.de> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:4929 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:4929 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------