From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/65197 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Wolfgang Schuster Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Which table environment? 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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 ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________