From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
Subject: Re: Re: good-looking tables in context
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 17:57:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <424C1DFA.6010708@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050331141350.GC27010@cebitec.uni-bielefeld.de>
Eckhart Guthöhrlein wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 at 22:38:15+0200, Patrick Gundlach wrote:
>
>>I sometimes do heavy tabulate typesetting. This is one of the last
>>reasons using LaTeX for me.
>
>
> Oh yes indeed. I think this is really the last thing where context is
> inferior to latex. Well, not really inferior when considering
> capabilities like those offered by natural tables. But concerning the
> final output, yes. And unfortunately, tables are very important for my
> next project. When I think of a hundred-or-so-pages document with many
> floats, using latex - I thought I would never have to go through this
> again. And I simply can't imagine anymore living with things like
> context's float placement, metapost tricks, hanging punctuation, great
> support for crazy feature request, etc.
> To be honest, I even thought of including latex tables as figures
> generated from inline code...
what exactly are you missing?
Hans
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-31 15:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-28 14:22 Eckhart Guthöhrlein
2005-03-30 20:38 ` Patrick Gundlach
2005-03-31 14:13 ` Eckhart Guthöhrlein
2005-03-31 15:57 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2005-03-31 20:32 ` Patrick Gundlach
2005-04-01 8:29 ` Hans Hagen
2005-04-03 19:07 ` Patrick Gundlach
2005-04-06 12:19 ` Eckhart Guthöhrlein
2005-04-10 0:10 ` Paul Tremblay
2005-04-10 8:59 ` Patrick Gundlach
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