Re[2]: Natural Tables ?

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 09:16 PM 10/2/2002 +0200, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:

>What about a "generic test"? For example, things like the D&D

ah, i could have known that you would cook up some feature

>Rules Cyclopedia typeset tables with rows coloured in groups:
>three white, three with a colour background, and then the pattern
>repeats.

hm, quite doable, once we can figure out the syntax, but in that case i 
should also look in subtableprocessing (since multipage tables are a memory 
turture test; possible when the widths don't change

>[snip]
>
>HH> you're lucky that this is not a slow-downer
>
>Isn't it slow enough already? ;)

well, this double test makes sure that it's only done twice (times two) per 
table, and even then only when defined, so that's virtually zero runtime

indeed, and i'll look int that some day

Hans
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