Re: Why I needed \parbox and why does \framed not work here?

[Gerben Wierda <Gerben.Wierda@rna.nl>]

Hi Willi,

Thanks.

If what you changed was the addition of the (2cm) stuff, I did try that 
but it did not change anything at that time.

But now I notice that I need to start my rows with a \NC. I would have 
thought that a \NC would be like a \crlf or a \page and that it would 
have been implied in the \NR command. I find this counterintuitive.

Anyway, Having that (2cm) stuff in the \startabulate makes all tables 
the same in column width. I used to be able to have one command 
\xttable where the result depended on what I had in the main text.

So, yes, I can use p columns, but that means that all of my tables will 
hae to have identical column widths. That is why I wanted to use c 
columns and have that decision in the text. So I would still be 
interested in a way of doing \parbox in ConTeXt.

(For non-LaTeX users \parbox{2cm}{text text text text etc} creates a 
paragraph 2 cm wide and sets the text in it. The height of the box is 
the result of that typesetting.)

G

On Mar 13, 2005, at 16:05, Willi Egger wrote:

> Hi Gerben,
>
> There is no worry about the mentioned chaos. You might be lucky, that 
> your definition is giving a result at all.
>
> If you consult the manual or read the article in the MAPS22 on 
> tabulating, you will see, that you missed a correct setup of the 
> tabulation.
>
> I attach my version and it works.
>
> KR
> Willi
>
> Gerben Wierda wrote:
>> Here is the example again, now with p columns. Never mind the 
>> non-working third example (ConTeXt wraps three elements in the third 
>> column now but not inside the \framed), but it seems that ConTeXt 
>> does not wrap the first column at all. As a result, the other two are 
>> very small.
>> G
>> PS. The ConTeXT manual does not have \starttable documentation, not 
>> does the wiki (how does 'p' work etc).
>> % Try with 'p' columns
>> \usemodule[bib] % defines \newcommand
>> \newcommand{\operand}[1]{{\sc #1}}
>> \newcommand{\ttvalue}[1]{{\sc #1}}
>> \newcommand{\xttable}[7]{\starttable[|p|p|p|]\HL %
>> #1 \NC #2 \NC #1 \operand{#3} #2 \SR\HL
>> \ttvalue{false} \NC \ttvalue{false} \NC \ttvalue{#4} \FR %
>> \ttvalue{false} \NC \ttvalue{true} \NC \ttvalue{#5} \MR %
>> \ttvalue{true} \NC \ttvalue{false} \NC \ttvalue{#6} \MR %
>> \ttvalue{true} \NC \ttvalue{true} \NC \ttvalue{#7} \LR\HL %
>> \stoptable}
>> \newcommand{\ttable}[5]{\xttable{a}{b}{#1}{#2}{#3}{#4}{#5}}
>> \starttext
>> Looks fine:\blank
>> \midaligned{%
>> \xttable{Statement X}{Statement Y}{$\Rightarrow$}%
>> {unknown}{unknown}{invalid (false)}{valid (true)}
>> }
>> This doesn't work:\blank
>> \midaligned{%
>> \xttable{Some sort of longer statement}{Another sort of longer 
>> statement}%
>> {$\Rightarrow$}%
>> {unknown}{unknown}{invalid (false)}{valid (true)}
>> }
>> This doesn't work either:\blank
>> \midaligned{%
>> \xttable{\framed[width=2cm,frame=off]{Some sort\par of longer
>> statement\par}}{\framed[width=2cm,frame=off]{Another sort\par of 
>> longer
>> statement\par}}{$\Rightarrow$}%
>> {unknown}{unknown}{invalid (false)}{valid (true)}
>> }
>> \stoptext
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> % Truthtables Gerben Wierda
> % C0ntext file
> % filename: truthtable-Wierda.tex
> % Gerben Wierda
> % W. Egger
> % 13-03-2005
>
> \setupoutput[pdftex]
> \setupbodyfont[ss,12pt]
>
> \usemodule[bib] % defines \newcommand
> \newcommand{\operand}[1]{{\sc #1}}
> \newcommand{\ttvalue}[1]{{\sc #1}}
> \newcommand{\xttable}[7]{\starttable[|p(2cm)|p(5cm)|p(3cm)|]
> \HL %
> \NC #1 \NC #2 \NC #1 \operand{#3} #2 \NC\NR
> \HL
> \NC \ttvalue{false} \NC \ttvalue{false} \NC \ttvalue{#4} \NC\NR %
> \NC \ttvalue{false} \NC \ttvalue{true} \NC \ttvalue{#5} \NC\NR %
> \NC \ttvalue{true} \NC \ttvalue{false} \NC \ttvalue{#6} \NC \NR %
> \NC \ttvalue{true} \NC \ttvalue{true} \NC \ttvalue{#7} \NC\NR\HL %
> \stoptable}
> \newcommand{\ttable}[5]{\xttable{a}{b}{#1}{#2}{#3}{#4}{#5}}
> \starttext
> Looks fine:\blank
> \midaligned{%
> \xttable{Statement X}{Statement Y}{$\Rightarrow$}%
> {unknown}{unknown}{invalid (false)}{valid (true)}
> }
>
>
>  This doesn't work:\blank
> \midaligned{%
> \xttable{Some sort of longer statement}{Another sort of longer 
> statement}%
> {$\Rightarrow$}%
> {unknown}{unknown}{invalid (false)}{valid (true)}
> }
>
> % This doesn't work either:\blank
> % \midaligned{%
> % \xttable{\framed[width=2cm,frame=off]{Some sort of longer
> % statement\par}}{\framed[width=2cm,frame=off]{Another sort of longer
> % statement\par}}{$\Rightarrow$}%
> % {unknown}{unknown}{invalid (false)}{valid (true)}
> % }
> \stoptext
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