Re: processing very big tables

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

On 4/9/2017 1:20 PM, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I need some fundamental advice from experienced users: I'm processing
> xml and collecting the data in lua tables, which I want to typeset in
> some sort of table or tabular format. Typesetting requirements are
> fairly low, just a couple of columns that need to be nicely aligned,
> with the occasional horizontal overflow that should be handled
> gracefully (i.e. longer lines should be broken), and of course, the
> table has to break across pages. However, the lua tables have several
> thousands of entries, and I expect the final document to have around
> 3,000 pages. When I tried Natural Tables, I got a "TeX capacity
> exceeded" error, which disappeared when I tried with a smaller part of
> my document. So my question is: what is the most "inexpensive" way of
> typesetting this sort of material? One of the table environments? Which
> one (would xtables be better?)? Or low-level vboxes within hboxes etc.?
> Or just \framed within \framed? What would you suggest for this sort of
> material?

\starttext

\setuplinetable[n=2,lines=25]
\setuplinetable[c][1][width=6cm] % 
,background=color,backgroundcolor=red,color=white]
\setuplinetable[c][1][width=6cm] % 
,background=color,backgroundcolor=red,color=white]
\setuplinetable[1][all][background=color,backgroundcolor=white]

\dontcomplain

\startlinetable
     \dorecurse{100}{
         \dorecurse{100}{
             \NC aaa \NC test test test  test \NC \NR
         }
     }
\stoplinetable

\page

% \startluacode
%     local context = context
%     local NC = context.NC
%     local NR = context.NR

%     context.startlinetable()
%     for i=1,100 do
%         for i=1,100 do
%             NC()
%             context("aaa")
%             NC()
%             context("test test test test")
%             NC()
%             NR()
%         end

%     context.stoplinetable()
% \stopluacode



\stoptext



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