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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Wolfgang Schuster <wolfgang.schuster@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Setting options for every n-th row in natural TABLEs
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2012 16:34:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5046117F.5060500@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <461190EC-4251-4CCE-8F75-F78EA878BC56@gmail.com>

On 2-9-2012 20:58, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>
> Am 02.09.2012 um 17:59 schrieb Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Edward Tufte's website, there is a discussion on zebra coloring in tables[1]. One of the suggestion is to add a horizontal rule after every third line or shade three lines with one background color and the remaining three with another background color.
>>
>> Is there an easy way to do this with natural TABLEs? I can do something like:
>>
>> \setupTABLE[row][1,2,3][background=color, backgroundcolor=gray]
>> \setupTABLE[row][7,8,9][background=color, backgroundcolor=gray]
>>
>> but it requires knowing the number of lines in advance.
>>
>> Aditya
>>
>> [1]: http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0001IV
>
> Natural tables have “odd” and “even” keywords for \setupTABLE but none in the way you like it. What I would do is to use a overlay in combination with metapost to create the background but there is no global register to access the current column/row of a cell, e.g. \currenttablecolumn (this name is already used by tables) and \currenttablerow.

I've added 4 status macros:

\starttext

\bTABLE
     \bTR
         \bTD 
(\currentTABLErow,\currentTABLEcolumn,\nofTABLErows,\nofTABLEcolumns) \eTD
         \bTD 
(\currentTABLErow,\currentTABLEcolumn,\nofTABLErows,\nofTABLEcolumns) \eTD
         \bTD 
(\currentTABLErow,\currentTABLEcolumn,\nofTABLErows,\nofTABLEcolumns) \eTD
         \bTD 
(\currentTABLErow,\currentTABLEcolumn,\nofTABLErows,\nofTABLEcolumns) \eTD
     \eTR
     \bTR
         \bTD 
(\currentTABLErow,\currentTABLEcolumn,\nofTABLErows,\nofTABLEcolumns) \eTD
         \bTD 
(\currentTABLErow,\currentTABLEcolumn,\nofTABLErows,\nofTABLEcolumns) \eTD
         \bTD 
(\currentTABLErow,\currentTABLEcolumn,\nofTABLErows,\nofTABLEcolumns) \eTD
         \bTD 
(\currentTABLErow,\currentTABLEcolumn,\nofTABLErows,\nofTABLEcolumns) \eTD
     \eTR
\eTABLE

\stoptext


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-09-04 14:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-02 15:59 Aditya Mahajan
2012-09-02 18:58 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2012-09-03  0:39   ` Aditya Mahajan
2012-09-03  4:37     ` Wolfgang Schuster
2012-09-03  6:14   ` Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o.
2012-09-03 14:40     ` Aditya Mahajan
2012-09-04 14:34   ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2012-09-04 15:21     ` Aditya Mahajan
2012-09-04 17:33       ` Sietse Brouwer
2012-09-05  7:01         ` Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o.
2012-09-02 19:56 ` Procházka Lukáš
2012-09-03  0:41   ` Aditya Mahajan

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