From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
Subject: Re: tables and fonts
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 12:30:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <37D63AB8.45999905@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9909080911530.815-100000@ahania.gmd.de>
Matthew Baker wrote:
> Changing starttable and stoptable to starttabulate and stoptabulate
> worked! Now p(10cm) gives me properly justified paragraphs and p(10cm)c
> gives me centred text. So what's the difference between table and
> tabulate?
Table is based on Wichura's table, but extended with proper spacing, an
interface, braking tables across pages, and color support (within what
tex permits). It's normally used for floating tables.
tabulate is something I wrote myself, and is more tuned to
in-text-tables, and does automatic table par width calculations, so
\starttabulate[|l|p|p|]
automatically distributes the available space between the 2 p's
Opposite to Table, the tabulate mechanism also breaks the p's across
pages.
(I am currently experimenting with color and backgrounds in tabulate;
also think of metapost graphics in overlays behind cells).
Some day I will write myself a successor to the table one. Actually not
even that hard, once one understands alignments.
Hans
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