Re: Re: good-looking tables in context

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Patrick Gundlach wrote:

> There are commands like \toprule, \midrule, \bottomrule that insert
> horizontal rules with different thickness (default values, optional
> ones can be added with [..] right after the command). Eckhart has sent
> an example in his first post.

\starttable[|||]
\HL[2]
\NC test \NC test \NC \FR
\HL[5]
\NC test \NC test \NC \MR
\HL[8]
\NC test \NC test \NC \LR
\HL[2]
\stoptable


> To get a horizontal rule from column a to column b you can (in LaTeX)
> use:
> 
> \cmidrule[<wd>](<trim>){a–b}
> 
> where wd is the rulethickness, trim is where to cut off a bit, and a,
> b the columns. This is a very nice command that I often use.

\starttable[||||]
\HL[2]
\NC test \NC test \NC test \NC \FR
\DC \DL[2] \DR
\NC test \NC test \NC test \NC \MR
\HL[8]
\NC test \NC test \NC test \NC \LR
\HL[2]
\stoptable

> \addlinespace addes a little space between rows. 

we have \SR for that

> Table preambles can be complicated... but the next one is pretty
> simple:
> 
> \begin{tabular}{@{}rll*{22}cv{40em}@{}}
> 
> means: to the left of the table, there should be no whitespace (i.e.
> the leftmost glyph of the table should be tight to the preceding
> glyph) now, there is a right aligned column, two left aligned, 22
> centered columns and one type "v" and to the right there should be no
> whitespace either. The column type v is defined like this

\framed[offset=overlay]{%
\starttable[s0|s1r|l|l|*{2}{c}|]
\NC right \NC left \NC left \NC one \NC two \AR
\NC r     \NC l    \NC l    \NC 1   \NC 2   \AR
\stoptable
}

something is wrong with the format key defining mechanism and hooks; i need to 
check this

[actually, i need to merge the original table code and my patches into one file 
so that i can make things more robust]

> \newcolumntype{v}[1]{>{\raggedright\hspace{0pt}}p{#1}}
> 
> Ragged right but so that the first word can be hyphenated.
> 
> Or another columntype could be:
> 
> \newcolumntype{R}[1]{%
>   >{\begin{turn}{90}\begin{minipage}[t][0pt]{#1}\smalltabsize\raggedright\hspace{0pt}}l%
>   <{\end{minipage}\end{turn}}%
> }
> 
> that would lead to rotated raggedright text in a smaller font.

keys ... but i need to fix something

> I know that ConTeXt tables have a lot of features that LaTeX tables
> don't have.

hidden features -)

Hans

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