* Tables --- what is current recommendation?
@ 2005-12-18 20:52 David Arnold
2005-12-18 21:48 ` Tobias Burnus
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From: David Arnold @ 2005-12-18 20:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
All,
There's a nice summary of Tables on:
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Tables_Overview
I'm wondering. If one is starting anew with Context, what would users
recommend as the best choice of table environment? What choice would
I make if I have no need of backward compatibility and am starting on
a fresh document?
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* Re: Tables --- what is current recommendation?
2005-12-18 20:52 Tables --- what is current recommendation? David Arnold
@ 2005-12-18 21:48 ` Tobias Burnus
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From: Tobias Burnus @ 2005-12-18 21:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
Hi,
David Arnold wrote:
> I'm wondering. If one is starting anew with Context, what would users
> recommend as the best choice of table environment?
I think it really depends on the type of table you need. For something
with a simple layout like vocabulary or address lists I would use
tabulate, for complex layouts with columns/rows spanning several cells I
would use the HTML-like TABLE.
table(s) falls in somewhere inbetween - more flexible than tabulate but
less than TABLE. (I think one should go rather for tabulate/TABLE than
for table(s), but others may disagree.)
For "line tables" the sourcefile already tells that "it provides a
mechanism for typesetting very large tables spanning many pages
horizontally and vertically", which is "experimental, undocumented".
(Only) if you have a table which spans _horizontal_ several pages you
should have a look.
Tobias
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