Re: \framed and \starttabulate

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 10:37 AM 3/19/2003 +0900, you wrote:
>Hi:
>
>I wanted to use
>        \framed
>            {\starttabulate ... \stoptabulate }
>
>but when I tried it, TeX complained about groupings and missing 
>parentheses.  Is there a way to make this work?  I switched to \bTABLE, 
>and that worked,  but \starttabulate is more convenient sometimes.

a \framed by default makes a so called hbox, and this conflicts with 
tabulate's halign; the resulting message comes deep down in tex and is one 
of the most confusing ones; it should be interpreted as: you are doing 
something complicated vertical in horizontal mode

Solution: force \framed to be a vbox, by setting the width/height or 
setting the align key to some value

\starttext

% unreadable (watch how we nil the strut, try it with \showstruts)

\framed[align=normal,strut=no]
   {\starttabulate
    \NC test \NC test \NC \NR
    \stoptabulate}

% more convenient (kind of startframedtext, but more tuned to this kind of 
usage)

\defineframedcontent[mine][offset=3pt]

test

\startframedcontent[mine]
\starttabulate[|l|l|]
\NC test \NC test \NC \NR
\stoptabulate
\stopframedcontent

test

\stoptext

Also, compare this (spacing) with:

\defineframedcontent[mine][offset=3pt,linecorrection=yes]

test

\startframedcontent[mine]
\starttabulate[|l|l|]
\NC test \NC test \NC \NR
\stoptabulate
\stopframedcontent

test


Hans
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