From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Which table environment?
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 11:23:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <699AFAE0-E8DB-4681-A0FE-F1F3CCCF7FBE@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=3VPtMMpnUriNh2sUiQDojj6CJJgbqQ96ZPXBu@mail.gmail.com>
Am 11.01.2011 um 01:03 schrieb Felix Ingram:
> Hello all,
>
> I've been playing with the various table environments but I thought
> I'd seek advice as to which would be the best for my requirements.
>
> I need to be able to do the following:
>
> - Repeating header row with coloured background and text (I can get
> this working with TABLE but not tabulate).
Tabulate supports background color for cells, Hans posted a example
last november.
Headers and footers are supported too, look for \starttabulatehead
and \starttabulatetail.
> - Multi-page tables (TABLE and tabulate are fine with these).
> - Insert images in a cell (TABLE seems to handle this better than tabulate).
Indeed.
> - Have rows that will split across pages - we will have large pieces
> of text and images which will end up being taller than the page.
> (tabulates paragraph support is the right sort of thing)
Correct, tabulate only feature.
> - Start next row on current page.
???
> - Include other tables, lists etc in a cell (this is a "nice to have"
> rather than a "must have")
TABLE
> The reason I need these various things is because Word acts this way
> and I need to produce something similar (until we can argue for a
> format change).
Use tabulate for text centric tables and TABLE for tables with a strict
layout and figures and other content (because you can set the cells
width and height).
> At the moment I'm leaning towards tabulate but I'm having issues with
> images and the headers. I'm using Mk IV (bonus question: as a newbie,
> should I just start with IV and ignore II? Or is II better for any
> particular reason?).
Use MkIV, the differences between both are not so big but for me there
are many minor things why i prefer MkIV over MkII.
Wolfgang
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