From: Matthew Huggett <mhuggett@zam.att.ne.jp>
Subject: Re: \framed and \starttabulate
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 23:11:07 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E787A7B.7040304@zam.att.ne.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.1.20030319082643.028ad5d0@server-1>
Hans:
Thanks for such a detailed answer. I think all novice users really
appreciate this kind of response.
Best wishes,
Matthew
Hans Hagen wrote:
> At 10:37 AM 3/19/2003 +0900, you wrote:
>
>> Hi:
>>
>> I wanted to use
>> \framed
>> {\starttabulate ... \stoptabulate }
>>
>> but when I tried it, TeX complained about groupings and missing
>> parentheses. Is there a way to make this work? I switched to
>> \bTABLE, and that worked, but \starttabulate is more convenient
>> sometimes.
>
>
> a \framed by default makes a so called hbox, and this conflicts with
> tabulate's halign; the resulting message comes deep down in tex and is
> one of the most confusing ones; it should be interpreted as: you are
> doing something complicated vertical in horizontal mode
>
> Solution: force \framed to be a vbox, by setting the width/height or
> setting the align key to some value
>
> \starttext
>
> % unreadable (watch how we nil the strut, try it with \showstruts)
>
> \framed[align=normal,strut=no]
> {\starttabulate
> \NC test \NC test \NC \NR
> \stoptabulate}
>
> % more convenient (kind of startframedtext, but more tuned to this
> kind of usage)
>
> \defineframedcontent[mine][offset=3pt]
>
> test
>
> \startframedcontent[mine]
> \starttabulate[|l|l|]
> \NC test \NC test \NC \NR
> \stoptabulate
> \stopframedcontent
>
> test
>
> \stoptext
>
> Also, compare this (spacing) with:
>
> \defineframedcontent[mine][offset=3pt,linecorrection=yes]
>
> test
>
> \startframedcontent[mine]
> \starttabulate[|l|l|]
> \NC test \NC test \NC \NR
> \stoptabulate
> \stopframedcontent
>
> test
>
>
> Hans
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2003-03-19 1:37 Matthew Huggett
2003-03-19 7:34 ` Hans Hagen
2003-03-19 14:11 ` Matthew Huggett [this message]
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