Re: breaking tabulate in columns?

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 09:33 AM 7/11/01 +0200, Mathias.Picker@virtual-earth.de wrote:
>Is there a way to force a column break between or (even better) in a
>tabulate enviroment?
>
>\startcolumns
>\starttabulate[|r|p|]
>\NC Fieldname \NC FieldValue \NC \AR
>...
>\stoptabulate
>\column
>\starttabulate..
>\stoptabulate
>\stopcolumns
>
>Does not work. Nor does putting the \column inside the tabulate (e.g.
>....\NR \n \column \n \NC...., which I would prefer)

columns acts on the whole page, not on individual components, and tables
are independent things

>A related question:
>
>Is there another way to insert something like a narrow blank line in a
>tabulate? I tried using \LR and \FR, and it looks good,  (\DC...\DL  is
>way too much space), but for generating the output and for adjusting the
>space I would long for something like \blank[dimension], e.g.
>\blankline[dimension] Is there such a beast?

you can add 

\noalign{\blank[small]}

between rows, ot alternatively add to cont-new.tex: 

\def\complexTableTB[#1]{\TABLEnoalign{\blanko[#1]}}
\def\simpleTableTB     {\TABLEnoalign{\blanko}}

\def\TabulateTB
  {\complexorsimpleTable{TB}}

\def\doTableinterline% #1 
  {\ifnum\currentTABLEcolumn>\maxTABLEcolumn
     \chuckTABLEautorow
   \else\ifnum\currentTABLEcolumn=0
     \TABLEnoalign
       {\global\let\checkTABLEautorow=\empty
        \global\let\chuckTABLEautorow=\empty}%
   \else
     \setTABLEerror\TABLEmissingcolumn
     \handleTABLEerror
   \fi\fi
   \complexorsimpleTable} % {#1} 

\def\TableHL{\doTableinterline{HL}}
\def\TableTB{\doTableinterline{TB}}

\appendtoks\let\TB\TableTB   \to\everytable
\appendtoks\let\TB\TabulateTB\to\everytabulate

And then use \TB 

\starttabulate
\NC text \NC text \NC \NR 
\TB[small]
\NC text \NC text \NC \NR 
\TB[4*big]
\NC text \NC text \NC \NR 
\stoptabulate

\starttable[|||]
\VL text \VL text \VL \AR 
\TB[small]
\VL text \VL text \VL \AR 
\TB[4*big]
\VL text \VL text \VL \AR 
\stoptable

I have no time to fully integrate and test this now, so for the moment it's
cont-new functionality

Hans 
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