Re: Background cells in tables?

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 09:20 AM 9/17/2002 +0200, you wrote:
>Perhaps this was discussed before, but I need to do something with tables
>and backgrounds (colors and stuff). But it didn't work! I used a simple
>example from core-tab:
>
>\starttabel[|c|c|c|]
>\HL
>\BC      \BC      \BL         \SR
>\VL test \VL test \VL test \VL\SR
>\HL
>\stoptabel
>
>This doesn't work!. In fact I need the longtables because they are bigger
>than 1 page, and I need alternating backgrounds (could use the natural
>tables for the latter, but it doesn't do the first). Well anyway, here's the
>log:

try \bTABLE ... \eTABLE instead

\setupcolors[state=start]
\setuplayout[height=8cm]
\setupTABLE[row][odd][background=color,backgroundcolor=red]
\setupTABLE[row][even][background=color,backgroundcolor=green]

\bTABLE[split=yes]
\bTR \bTD one   \eTD \bTD two  \eTD \eTR
\bTR \bTD three \eTD \bTD four \eTD \eTR
\bTR \bTD one   \eTD \bTD two  \eTD \eTR
\bTR \bTD three \eTD \bTD four \eTD \eTR
\bTR \bTD one   \eTD \bTD two  \eTD \eTR
\bTR \bTD three \eTD \bTD four \eTD \eTR
\bTR \bTD one   \eTD \bTD two  \eTD \eTR
\bTR \bTD three \eTD \bTD four \eTD \eTR
....
\eTABLE
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