From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/832 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: tables and fonts Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 12:30:16 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <37D63AB8.45999905@wxs.nl> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035391674 27502 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 16:47:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 16:47:54 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: Matthew.Baker@gmd.de Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:832 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:832 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------