From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/48093 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Simplified input for natural tables Date: Sun, 08 Mar 2009 17:58:39 +0100 Message-ID: <49B3F93F.5080707@wxs.nl> References: <1C61EC31-CF0E-4A26-9EA9-2B26C14116CD@gmail.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1236531573 7510 80.91.229.12 (8 Mar 2009 16:59:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2009 16:59:33 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sun Mar 08 18:00:49 2009 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 lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LgMMp-0005kH-TT for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Mar 2009 18:00:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BDB91FADC; Sun, 8 Mar 2009 17:59:22 +0100 (CET) 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 17725-03; Sun, 8 Mar 2009 17:58:51 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E491C1FADF; Sun, 8 Mar 2009 17:58:50 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C3671FADF for ; Sun, 8 Mar 2009 17:58:49 +0100 (CET) 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 18682-03-7 for ; Sun, 8 Mar 2009 17:58:40 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from filter3-til.mf.surf.net (filter3-til.mf.surf.net [194.171.167.219]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88A591FADB for ; Sun, 8 Mar 2009 17:58:40 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-083-247-100-017.solcon.nl [83.247.100.17]) by filter3-til.mf.surf.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id n28GwdUd031114 for ; Sun, 8 Mar 2009 17:58:39 +0100 Original-Received: from [10.100.1.100] (unverified [10.100.1.100]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.9e) with ESMTP id 17362-1840426 for ; Sun, 08 Mar 2009 17:58:39 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows/20081209) In-Reply-To: X-Originating-IP: 10.100.1.100 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=83.247.100.17; country=NL; region=16; city=Dronten; latitude=52.5333; longitude=5.7167; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=52.5333,5.7167&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 190279929 - 94121151eb92 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 194.171.167.219 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 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:48093 Archived-At: Aditya Mahajan wrote: > On Sun, 8 Mar 2009, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > >> Hi Hans, >> >> natural tables are perfect to create tables with a fixed size for the >> cells >> but the syntax requires sometimes a lot of typing for small content >> and takes >> to many lines of code in the document. less code and more efficient too ... can you test this? \def\startTABLE {\dosingleempty\dostartTABLE} \def\dostartTABLE[#1]% {\bgroup \bTABLE[#1]% \let\NC\doTABLENC \let\NR\doTABLENR \let\bTR\relax \let\bTD\relax \let\bTH\relax \let\bTN\relax} \def\stopTABLE {\eTABLE \egroup} \newconditional\inTABLEnc \unexpanded\def\doTABLENR {\eTR \setfalse\inTABLEnc} \unexpanded\def\doTABLENC {\futurelet\next\dodoTABLENC} \def\dodoTABLENC {\ifx\next\doTABLENR \else \expandafter\dododoTABLENC \fi} \long\def\dododoTABLENC#1\NC {\ifconditional\inTABLEnc\else\settrue\inTABLEnc\parseTR[][]\fi \parseTD[][]#1\eTD\NC} watch the relaxing of the b commands, so that we catch mixed usage Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________