From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/84167 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: [***SPAM***] YATM (Yet Another Table Method) Date: Sun, 08 Sep 2013 17:02:24 +0200 Message-ID: <522C9180.8080309@wxs.nl> References: <20130907103149.3252@binki> <522B0841.7080405@wxs.nl> <20130908093348.2764@binki> <70B48C5D-10E8-4C6B-972B-5243A2F33D6E@gmail.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1378652576 31110 80.91.229.3 (8 Sep 2013 15:02:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2013 15:02:56 +0000 (UTC) To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sun Sep 08 17:03:00 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([5.39.185.229]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VIgVw-0004J8-56 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Sep 2013 17:03:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A534F1022E; Sun, 8 Sep 2013 17:01:20 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id IvDh8d+mGwaX; Sun, 8 Sep 2013 17:01:14 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68F33101F5; Sun, 8 Sep 2013 17:01:14 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBE46101F5 for ; Sun, 8 Sep 2013 17:01:12 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 6k5iYLrixHnk for ; Sun, 8 Sep 2013 17:01:08 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from filter3-ams.mf.surf.net (filter3-ams.mf.surf.net [192.87.102.71]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E0E2101DE for ; Sun, 8 Sep 2013 17:01:08 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from smtp.ziggozakelijk.nl (D57D1DA2.static.ziggozakelijk.nl [213.125.29.162]) by filter3-ams.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-9.4) with ESMTP id r88F2jEd006513 for ; Sun, 8 Sep 2013 17:02:46 +0200 X-Default-Received-SPF: pass (skip=loggedin (res=PASS)) x-ip-name=10.0.4.6; Original-Received: from [10.0.4.6] (unverified [10.0.4.6]) by pragma-net.nl (SurgeMail 6.3c2) with ESMTP id 4622-1713362 for ; Sun, 08 Sep 2013 17:02:45 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130801 Thunderbird/17.0.8 In-Reply-To: <70B48C5D-10E8-4C6B-972B-5243A2F33D6E@gmail.com> X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-9 X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=213.125.29.162; country=NL; region=15; city=Zwolle; latitude=52.5058; longitude=6.0858; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=52.5058,6.0858&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 03KmD2JOM - 23c747533c79 - 20130908 (trained as not-spam) X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 192.87.102.71 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:84167 Archived-At: 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[][][] > 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________