From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/19502 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Re: good-looking tables in context Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 17:57:46 +0200 Message-ID: <424C1DFA.6010708@wxs.nl> References: <20050328142220.GC20329@cebitec.uni-bielefeld.de> <20050331141350.GC27010@cebitec.uni-bielefeld.de> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1112284633 26126 80.91.229.2 (31 Mar 2005 15:57:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 15:57:13 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Mar 31 17:57:11 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DH22H-0004kJ-1w for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 17:56:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D4AF128C0; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 17:57:56 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 02149-05; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 17:57:50 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CEC2127CC; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 17:57:50 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEF69127CC for ; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 17:57:49 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 02148-06 for ; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 17:57:48 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mailrelay01.solcon.nl (maillb.solcon.nl [212.45.32.200]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6DC4127BE for ; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 17:57:48 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from server-1.pragma-net.nl (dsl-212-84-128-085.solcon.nl [212.84.128.85]) by mailrelay01.solcon.nl (8.12.11/SQL-8.12.11-5/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j2VFvioB008408 for ; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 17:57:44 +0200 Original-Received: by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix, from userid 65534) id B930218F33; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 17:39:11 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.54] (unknown [10.100.1.54]) by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 146B317C80 for ; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 15:39:10 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <20050331141350.GC27010@cebitec.uni-bielefeld.de> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.80/744/Fri Mar 4 04:01:45 2005 clamav-milter version 0.80j on mailrelay01 X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:19502 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:19502 Eckhart Guth=F6hrlein wrote: > On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 at 22:38:15+0200, Patrick Gundlach wrote: >=20 >>I sometimes do heavy tabulate typesetting. This is one of the last >>reasons using LaTeX for me.=20 >=20 >=20 > 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------