[NTG-context] Re: How to specify a default formatting for TABLE

[Gerion Entrup <gerion.entrup@flump.de>]

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Am Dienstag, 2. Juli 2024, 00:17:36 MESZ schrieb Wolfgang Schuster:
> Gerion Entrup schrieb am 01.07.2024 um 23:56:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I want to format a bunch a tables with the same formatting.
> > It seems that specifying the \setupTABLE commands as part of the preamble works.
> > 
> > However, I need some tables that are formatted in another way.
> > Is there a generic way to specify this?
> > 
> > Here is a MWE:
> > [...]
> > 
> > The last two tables should be formatted as if the four setupTABLE commands in the header are not existent.
> > My solution does not work, however.
> 
> 1. Put your table settings in a setups-block and load the one you want 
> at the start of your table.
> 
> 2. You don't need \setupcolors[state=start] because colors are enabled 
> by default (since a veee...eeery long time).
> 
> 3. You can replace \bTD ... \eTD with \bTH ... \eTH for table headers to 
> get bold text.
> 
> %%%% begin example
> \startsetups[table:a]
>    \setupTABLE [each] [frame=off,width=1cm,height=1cm,align={middle,lohi}]
>    \setupTABLE [each] [background=color,backgroundcolor=lightgray]
> \stopsetups
> 
> \startsetups[table:b]
>    \setupTABLE [each] 
> [frame=off,width=2cm,height=1.2\lineheight,align=middle]
>    \setupTABLE [each] [topframe=on,bottomframe=on]
> \stopsetups
> 
> \starttext
> 
> \bTABLE
>    \bTR
>      \bTD A \eTD
>      \bTD B \eTD
>    \eTR
>    \bTR
>      \bTD C \eTD
>      \bTD D \eTD
>    \eTR
> \eTABLE
> 
> \blank
> 
> \bTABLE[setups=table:a]
>    \bTR
>      \bTD A \eTD
>      \bTD B \eTD
>    \eTR
>    \bTR
>      \bTD C \eTD
>      \bTD D \eTD
>    \eTR
> \eTABLE
> 
> \blank
> 
> \bTABLE[setups=table:b]
>    \bTR
>      \bTD A \eTD
>      \bTD B \eTD
>    \eTR
>    \bTR
>      \bTD C \eTD
>      \bTD D \eTD
>    \eTR
> \eTABLE
> 
> \stoptext
> %%%% end example
> 
> Wolfgang

Thank you very much! That are a bunch of nice tricks. The setups environment is really powerful.
I will actively search for this keyword in the documentation next time.

Gerion




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