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From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: [***SPAM***] YATM (Yet Another Table Method)
Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2013 17:50:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <31DC68F5-2D8E-4321-9A22-9CC87EF0D4C3@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <522C9180.8080309@wxs.nl>


Am 08.09.2013 um 17:02 schrieb Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>:

>> Do you plan to add something equivalent to \setupTABLE[<row>][<column>][<settings>]
>> because xtables lack the function to set values for certain rows/columns.
> 
> in TABLE that is both flexible and a slow-downer but in xtreme table we have named cells, rows, cellgroups, rowgroups (also a bit better abstraction and fits nicely in the setup handler; in TABLE is boils down to storing the setup and reprising)

Can you at least add a command to access the current row/column (e.g. \currentxtablerow and \curentxtablecolumn), this way one can use metapost to create special background (e.g. different colors for odd/even rows) without manual tagging each row.

Wolfgang
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  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-08 15:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-07  1:31 hwitloc
2013-09-07 11:04 ` Hans Hagen
2013-09-08  0:33   ` hwitloc
2013-09-08 12:17     ` Wolfgang Schuster
2013-09-08 14:41       ` hwitloc
2013-09-08 15:04         ` Hans Hagen
2013-09-09  7:13           ` Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o.
2013-09-09 10:29             ` Hans Hagen
2013-09-08 15:02       ` Hans Hagen
2013-09-08 15:50         ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]
2013-09-08 23:18           ` Hans Hagen

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