Re: Help with \setuplayout[grid=yes]

[Vit Zyka <vit.zyka@seznam.cz>]

Randall Skelton wrote:
> Many thanks for the suggestion Vit.  In this case, however, I've split 
> the \starttable and \stoptable commands in the \startAuthors and 
> \stopAuthors definitions which may well be the root of my problem.  This 
> means that I cannot easily wrap the whole table with \placeongrid{ }.  I 
> cannot see a way of getting the \domoveongrid and/or \snaptogrid\vbox to 
> work either.

OK, in this case use in \startAuthor

   \placeongrid[...]\bgroup

and in \stopAuthor

   \egroup

cheers
vit


> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can clean this up so that 
> \starttable and \stoptable are not in separate definitions but I can 
> still use variables to define the table elements as is done in the 
> \Authors definition?
> 
> Cheers,
> Randall
>  
> 
>     \placeongrid{%    or e.g. \placeongrid[{broad,high}]{%
>        your table
>     }
>      > %%% Authors and Approvals
>      > \def\AuthorsTitle{\midaligned{\sc{Authors and Approvals}}}
>      >
>      > \def\startAuthors{%
>      >   \blank[2*big]\AuthorsTitle\\\blank[2*big]%
>      >   \hbox to \hsize\bgroup\hss\SetTableToWidth{ 6.5in}%
>      >   \starttable[|c|c|c|c|c|]
>      >   \HL
>      >   \VL \VL Function\VL Name\VL Signature\VL Date\VL\SR\HL}
>      >
>      > \def\stopAuthors{\stoptable\hss\egroup}
>      >
>      > def\Author[#1]{%
>      >   \getgparameters[Author][#1]%
>      >   \doifundefined{AuthorRole}{\gdef\AuthorRole{Prepared by:}}%
>      >   \doifundefined{AuthorFunction}{\gdef\AuthorFunction{-}}%
>      >   \doifundefined{AuthorName}{\gdef\AuthorName{-}}%
>      >   \doifundefined{AuthorSignature}{\gdef\AuthorSignature{}}%
>      >   \doifundefined{AuthorDate}{\gdef\AuthorDate{-}}%
>      >   \VL\AuthorRole \VL\AuthorFunction%
>      >   \VL\AuthorName \VL\AuthorSignature%
>      >   \VL\AuthorDate%
>      >   \VL\SR\HL%
>      >   \gdef\AuthorFunction{ }\gdef\AuthorName{ }%
>      >   \gdef\AuthorSignature{ }\gdef\AuthorDate{ }%
>      >   }
> 
> 
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