Re: How to apply a color or screen background to a tabulate (or table) cell?

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 10:12 PM 4/18/2002 +1000, Daniel Pittman wrote:

>I know that the 'f' is the symbolic name of the position and that 'x' is
>the predefined background mentioned above. I couldn't work out exactly
>what the set of macros for defining points did, though.

indeed it's specifying symbolic names and begin/end points; this permits 
spanning cells in quite strange ways.

>The '=', or GSC, type seems to be devoted to picking the area of a
>single cell, but it's non-functional for multi-line text. :(

ah, i must admit that i never really used it, it was more a test to see if 
it could work somehow

>The other two sets, [+-] and [><], seem to be identical in function.
>I couldn't work out if there was *any* difference, though I suspect that
>something subtle is going on that I didn't identify.
>
>Finally, as I mentioned, trying to read the source to better understand
>those macros made my brain melt. The ConTeXt sources scare me
>occasionally -- there is /so/ much magic in there...

be warned: most of the source is not meant for reading

>Anyway, I found that the [be]TABLE set work for me, so I use them.
>I wouldn't mind getting some explanation of the use of the GSC, GFC and
>GTC types, though.

S = siggle
F = from
T = to

if i remember right.

Hans
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