From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/27093 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Rows and lines in tables Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 23:55:05 +0200 Message-ID: <443C25B9.9040905@wxs.nl> References: <200603312123.k2VLNYDQ016349@svr14.dnsteam.de> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1144792535 22359 80.91.229.2 (11 Apr 2006 21:55:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 21:55:35 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Apr 11 23:55:31 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org 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 1FTQpM-0004jQ-H9 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Apr 2006 23:55:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EC8D127B4; Tue, 11 Apr 2006 23:55:12 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 05399-05-4; Tue, 11 Apr 2006 23:55:08 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9381127A7; Tue, 11 Apr 2006 23:55:08 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B161127B5 for ; Tue, 11 Apr 2006 23:55:07 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 05399-05-3 for ; Tue, 11 Apr 2006 23:55:06 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-212-84-128-085.solcon.nl [212.84.128.85]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id AA77C1278E for ; Tue, 11 Apr 2006 23:55:06 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.102] (unverified [10.100.1.102]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.5b3) with ESMTP id 12208 for ; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 01:55:06 +0400 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <200603312123.k2VLNYDQ016349@svr14.dnsteam.de> X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com r=-274017400 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 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: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:27093 Archived-At: Robert Engelhardt wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm a new ConTeXt user (started using it a few days ago) and I do have > three problems now with tables which I could not solve reading the manual > and the content of the ConTeXt wiki. I've created a minimal example (see > below) illustrating my problems: > > 1. How can create lines with different widths using the "\DL" command as > I do with "\HL[]" oder "\VL[]"? This would, in my > example, allow to align the "dummy" text in the first table with the > numbers in the second table. > > 2. How can I create a carriage return in the text of a table cell? > Neither "\crlf" nor "\\" do work (tried it with the "AAA" and "BBB" text > in the first table to get them into the same cell. > > 3. How can I synchronize the height of the first two lines of the first > table with those of the second table, no matter if there's a line between > the rows (as in the second table, a thin one as in my example or even a > fat one) or not (like in the first table which visually has a "big > cell")? Can I create an "invisible line"? How do I line up the "BBB" with > the "YYY / ZZZ" line? Or, another possibility, how do I control the rows > independently, having the "BBB" in the first table very close to the > "AAA", perhaps even three lines of text there, and at the same time only > two rows of text in the second table? What about having only one line of > text in the first table, vertically centered to the corresponding two > rows of the second table? > > === [example] === > > \starttext > \define\bold{8} > \startcombination[2*1] > {\starttable[|c|] > \HL[\bold] > \VL[\bold] AAA \VL[\bold]\FR > \VL BBB \VL\LR > \HL[\bold] > \VL dummy1 \VL\SR > \HL > \VL dummy2 \VL\SR > \HL > \VL dummy3 \VL\SR > \HL[\bold] > \VL dummy4 \VL\SR > \HL > \VL dummy5 \VL\SR > \HL > \VL dummy6 \VL\SR > \HL[\bold] > \VL dummy7 \VL\SR > \HL > \VL dummy8 \VL\SR > \HL > \VL dummy9 \VL\SR > \HL[\bold] > \stoptable}{} > {\starttable[|c|cw(3cm)|] > \HL[\bold] > \VL[\bold] \use{2} XXX \VL[\bold]\FR > \HL > \VL YYY \VL[1] ZZZ \VL\LR > \HL[\bold] > \VL 1 \VL \VL \SR > \DL\VL\DR > \VL 2 \VL \VL \SR > \DL\VL\DR > \VL 3 \VL \VL \SR > \DL\VL\DR > \VL 4 \VL \VL \SR > \DL\VL\DR > \VL 5 \VL \VL \SR > \DL\VL\DR > \VL 6 \VL \VL \SR > \DL\VL\DR > \VL 7 \VL \VL \SR > \DL\VL\DR > \VL 8 \VL \VL \SR > \DL\VL\DR > \VL 9 \VL \VL \SR > \HL[\bold] > \stoptable}{} > \stopcombination > \stoptext > > === [/example] === > > I know, a layout with all these horizontal lines and two tables sitting > next to each other is not the best one, but I'm trying to reconstruct an > existing document which is designed that way. Thanks for your help! > btw, redefining\bold is a bad idea, use \Bold (i.e. capitalize your personal commands) \starttext \def\DummyLine {\VL \blackrule[height=.5\linewidth,depth=.5\linewidth,width=0pt] \VL \NR} \def\DummyBoldT{\VL \blackrule[height=4\linewidth, depth=0\linewidth, width=0pt] \VL \VL \NR} \def\DummyBoldB{\VL \blackrule[height=0\linewidth, depth=3\linewidth, width=0pt] \VL \VL \NR} \define\bold{8} \startcombination[2*1] {\starttable[|c|] \HL[\bold] \VL[\bold] AAA \VL[\bold]\FR \DummyLine \VL BBB \VL\LR \HL[\bold] \VL dummy1 \VL\SR \HL \VL dummy2 \VL\SR \HL \VL dummy3 \VL\SR \HL[\bold] \VL dummy4 \VL\SR \HL \VL dummy5 \VL\SR \HL \VL dummy6 \VL\SR \HL[\bold] \VL dummy7 \VL\SR \HL \VL dummy8 \VL\SR \HL \VL dummy9 \VL\SR \HL[\bold] \stoptable}{} {\starttable[|c|cw(3cm)|] \HL[\bold] \VL[\bold] \use{2} XXX \VL[\bold]\FR \HL \VL YYY \VL[1] ZZZ \VL\LR \HL[\bold] \VL 1 \VL \VL \SR \DL\VL\DR \VL 2 \VL \VL \SR \DL\VL\DR \VL 3 \VL \VL \SR \DummyBoldT \DL\VL\DR \DummyBoldB \VL 4 \VL \VL \SR \DL\VL\DR \VL 5 \VL \VL \SR \DL\VL\DR \VL 6 \VL \VL \SR \DummyBoldT \DL\VL\DR \DummyBoldB \VL 7 \VL \VL \SR \DL\VL\DR \VL 8 \VL \VL \SR \DL\VL\DR \VL 9 \VL \VL \SR \HL[\bold] \stoptable}{} \stopcombination \stoptext ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------