Tables with variable column count

Tables with variable column count

[Jaroslav Snajdr]

Hello,

I'm trying to create tables with variable column count:

\def\mytable#1{\starttable[|\dorecurse{#1}{l|}]}

\mytable{10} should make table with 10 columns.

But this doesn't work. What is the correct way to tame the macro expansion?

-jns

Re: Tables with variable column count

[Hans Hagen]

At 03:34 PM 6/12/2002 +0200, Jaroslav Snajdr wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I'm trying to create tables with variable column count:
>
>\def\mytable#1{\starttable[|\dorecurse{#1}{l|}]}
>
>\mytable{10} should make table with 10 columns.
>
>But this doesn't work. What is the correct way to tame the macro expansion?

Well, this should work,

\starttable[|*{4}{|}]
\NC test \VL test \NC test \NC etc \NC \FR
\NC test \VL test \NC test \NC etc \NC \MR
\NC test \VL test \NC test \NC etc \NC \LR
\stoptable

but ... i found out that the error recovery mechanism does not count those 
repetitive cells.

I'll send you a slightly adapted core-tab.tex (goes into context/base); you 
need to regenerate the format

Hans
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