From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: [***SPAM***] YATM (Yet Another Table Method)
Date: Sun, 08 Sep 2013 17:02:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <522C9180.8080309@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <70B48C5D-10E8-4C6B-972B-5243A2F33D6E@gmail.com>
On 9/8/2013 2:17 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>
> Am 08.09.2013 um 02:33 schrieb hwitloc@gmail.com:
>
>>
>> Thanks for the explanation.
>> Providing the mapping feature with \mapTABLEtoxtabl and \restoreTABLEfromxtable
>> was a very good choice.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Hans Hagen wrote:
>>
>>> On 9/7/2013 3:31 AM, hwitloc@gmail.com wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I just noticed the YATM, "yet another table method", built in ConTEXt, called "extreme tables", which is said to be a variant of the natural table mechanism.
>>>>
>>>> Is extreme-tables a superset of natural-tables functionality?
>>>>
>>>> Is the future in extreme-tables and will natural-tables eventually take a back seat and then fade away, being surpassed in development, features and usage?
>>>
>>> - the natural tables will stay (but frozen
>>> - you can overload them: \mapTABLEtoxtabl \restoreTABLEfromxtable
>>> - xtreme tables have more protential for extensions without
>>> sacrificing speed
>>> - xtreme tables are faster but for normal use both suit
>
> Do you plan to add something equivalent to \setupTABLE[<row>][<column>][<settings>]
> because xtables lack the function to set values for certain rows/columns.
in TABLE that is both flexible and a slow-downer but in xtreme table we
have named cells, rows, cellgroups, rowgroups (also a bit better
abstraction and fits nicely in the setup handler; in TABLE is boils down
to storing the setup and reparsing)
Hans
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-08 15:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-07 1:31 hwitloc
2013-09-07 11:04 ` Hans Hagen
2013-09-08 0:33 ` hwitloc
2013-09-08 12:17 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2013-09-08 14:41 ` hwitloc
2013-09-08 15:04 ` Hans Hagen
2013-09-09 7:13 ` Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o.
2013-09-09 10:29 ` Hans Hagen
2013-09-08 15:02 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2013-09-08 15:50 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2013-09-08 23:18 ` Hans Hagen
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