From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: "Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد" <ishamid@colostate.edu>
Subject: Re: Tables for newbies [WAS Re: imbalanced columns]
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 20:42:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C3F568B.4070403@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <op.vfwblui9pw6hmh@ishamid-pc>
On 15-7-2010 7:45, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote:
> Hi Aditya,
>
> On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 11:37:32 -0600, Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> Have you tried using natural tables. Now you can use them with almost
>> the same amount of typing as the old table macros.
>> \startTABLE
>> \NC text 1 \NC text 2 \NC\NR
>> \NC text 3 \NC text 4 \NC\NR
>> \stopTABLE
>
> Question for all: for MkIV, should we recommend ONLY natural tables to
> newcomers, e.g., in a ConTeXt Book?
>
> I have not used Natural Tables too much, but I can switch to those for
> future work and consider Tables deprecated for most purposes.
>
> Mainly a pedagogical/practical question: better to have one good way to
> do things than burdening folks with too much info...
>
>> and you have a high level interface of \setupTABLE (although I do not
>> know if natural tables support equal column widths)
>
> I guess we'll find out soon enough... ;-)
\bTABLE .. \eTABLE
\starttabulate .. \stoptabulate
tabulate is quite different and has unique properties
(there are also linetables but those are only for source code readers)
Hans
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Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-14 18:42 imbalanced columns Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
2010-07-14 18:51 ` Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
2010-07-14 20:26 ` Peter Rolf
2010-07-15 0:35 ` Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
2010-07-15 8:33 ` Peter Rolf
2010-07-15 14:53 ` Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
2010-07-15 17:12 ` Peter Rolf
2010-07-15 17:16 ` Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
2010-07-15 17:28 ` Peter Rolf
2010-07-15 18:04 ` Peter Rolf
2010-07-15 17:24 ` Peter Rolf
2010-07-15 17:37 ` Aditya Mahajan
2010-07-15 17:45 ` Tables for newbies [WAS Re: imbalanced columns] Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
2010-07-15 17:57 ` luigi scarso
2010-07-15 18:42 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2010-07-16 13:05 ` Peter Münster
2010-07-16 15:51 ` Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
2010-07-16 18:21 ` luigi scarso
2010-07-15 18:43 ` imbalanced columns Hans Hagen
2010-07-15 18:47 ` Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
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