From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: next beta (tabulate)
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 10:42:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5149847C.4060009@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130320082421.613f273e@iram-hb-003386.extra.cea.fr>
On 3/20/2013 8:24 AM, Alan BRASLAU wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Mar 2013 23:46:35 +0100
> Sietse Brouwer <sbbrouwer@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> [1] http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Tabulate
>
> There is \starttabulate and \starttable.
> I understand that they use different mechanisms, even though their
> syntax are parallel. The wiki page [1] warns against the use of macros
> in tabulate, but this seems a bit obscure. Also, Tables_Overview
> recommends tabulate for simple tables and flags both table and tables as
> depreciated. I hesitate to add this information at the top of the wiki
> pages: Tabulate, Table and Tables as I am not clear about the status
> of these three mechanisms...
The obscurity comes from the fact that a tabulate is typeset multipass
so macro definitions might have changed between first and last columns /
rows. This is probably less of an issu ein mkiv.
> One question: is it possible to span columns using tabulate as in
> table: \Use{n}[format]{data}?
no. okay, I sometimes cheat: \rlap{data} works out well
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-20 9:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-19 22:00 next beta Hans Hagen
2013-03-19 22:46 ` Sietse Brouwer
2013-03-19 23:03 ` Hans Hagen
2013-03-20 7:14 ` Keith J. Schultz
2013-03-20 8:43 ` Hans Hagen
2013-03-20 16:36 ` Jonathan Barchi
2013-03-20 20:27 ` Hans Hagen
2013-03-20 7:24 ` next beta (tabulate) Alan BRASLAU
2013-03-20 9:42 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2015-04-15 17:08 ` next beta Aditya Mahajan
2015-04-16 12:45 ` Hans Hagen
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