natural table oddities

[Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>]

[This mail sat in my drafts folder for days; wanted to research more 
first, well…]

Am 28.03.23 um 02:19 schrieb Bruce Horrocks:
> If you're asking for comments with a view to making changes then...

I can’t make the changes myself, only suggest them to Hans.

>> On 27 Mar 2023, at 15:03, Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl> wrote:

>>> * If I format a column, e.g. \setupTABLE[c][-1][color=red], body and foot are formatted, but not the same column in header. I couldn’t find how to format columns in header.
> 
> If you disregard the Wiki page instructions to use \bTH...\eTH then you can format the header using:
\bTD ... \eTD

> but I'm not sure what the consequences might be, if any. You lose the default bold heading so maybe that's all /bTH.../eTH is adding?

Yes, I also found that out – either I sent an incomplete email, or I 
forgot to add my later “research”. 🤔

TH (table header, not Taco or Tomáš 😉) adds a separation between header 
and body cells, but setting up "header" affects both TD and TH within 
TABLEhead.

> It would be nice to have a way of specifying the header explicitly. My suggestion would be to have:
> - \setupTABLE[r][head][...] affect just the header
> - \setupTABLE[r][next][...] affect the new page header
> - \setupTABLE[r][first|last|body][...] affect the first, or last, or only the body rows (i.e. not the header or footer)
> - \setupTABLE[r][foot][...] affect just the footer
> 
> [r][last] (and [r][-1]) would represent the last body row (but not the footer row if one has been requested).

I agree.

>>> ## Formatting
>>> * maxwidth doesn’t seem to have an effect, neither on the whole table nor on a column.
>>> * textwidth works only for the whole table.
>>> * width gets stretched if option=stretch; i.e. I can’t fix the width of single cells or columns.
> 
> For me, \setupTABLE [c] [1] [width=3cm] fixes the width of column 1 and forces long text to wrap.

But the width of a column is not fixed if you set option=stretch, then 
*all* columns are stretched, not only the undefined.

Hraban
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