From: Daniel Lyons <fusion@storytotell.org>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: TaBlE from Lua
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 18:45:47 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <330D6A41-0B03-4ECF-917E-6A50064375B5@storytotell.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110224011613.GA5149@orcus>
On Feb 23, 2011, at 6:16 PM, Philipp Gesang wrote:
> On 2011-02-23 <17:07:38>, Daniel Lyons wrote:
>> Is there a convenient way to create TaBlE tables from Lua? If so,
>> where can I read about it?
>
> Good evening, Daniel!
>
> [-1] Isn’t TaBlE deprecated? <http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Tables_Overview>
I didn't know that!
> [0] If you aim for convenience, wouldn’t you rather want to
> switch to \[start|stop]tabulate? Its syntax is very similar
> and there are a few examples to learn from in the context
> source code.
My particular situation is a bit more involved. I want to put SQL in my ConTeXt source and have it run it against my database and format the result nicely in my document. I think I see how to do it, I just need to be able to take the parsed output and make the visually appealing table.
> [1] I don’t know how your table structure looks like, but the
> example 1 can be a starting point, assuming a 2dimensional
> table where all rows have the same element count:
It's not going to be too fancy, just headers and rows with the same number of columns on each line. I do want to be able to control how they get aligned but otherwise nothing interesting.
> [2] Item example 2, but using the cld interface
> <http://wiki.contextgarden.net/cld>.
>
> Put both files in the same directory and run “context” on
> table.tex to build the examples.
Thanks!
—
Daniel Lyons
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-24 1:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-23 23:07 Daniel Lyons
2011-02-23 23:19 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2011-02-24 1:16 ` Philipp Gesang
2011-02-24 1:45 ` Daniel Lyons [this message]
2011-02-24 6:35 ` luigi scarso
2011-02-24 6:48 ` Daniel Lyons
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