Re: table: code doesn't work any more with recent beta

["Mojca Miklavec" <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>]

On 10/2/06, John R. Culleton wrote:
> On Monday 02 October 2006 13:07, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
> > On Sun, 01 Oct 2006 22:42:03 +0100
> >
> > Sanjoy Mahajan <sanjoy@mrao.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> > > I'd seen a similar problem but didn't manage to catch it before it
> > > slithered away.  But I'm pretty sure it used to work (perhaps with an
> > > August 06 release).
>
> Worst case as an emergency fix you could pick up the table module
> from the texsis suite: TXSruled.tex. I use it all the time in plain tex and
> pdfetex. It will work in Context too. Here is a sample:
> \input TXSruled.tex
> ...
> \ruledtable
> VENDOR \cr
> John Culleton \hfill\crnorule
> Able Indexers and Typesetters\hfill\crnorule
> 2401 Haight Avenue\hfill\crnorule
> Eldersburg, MD 21784 \hfill
> \endruledtable
>
> I find this style of coding less cumbersome than the one adopted for
> Context, with all the capitalizations etc.

I don't need a quick fix since I can still use the old version to
compile that specific document - but it would be great if it would be
fixed in the current beta as well.

I also remember some other problems with tables being reported not so
long ago (usage of \AR, \MR, \FR, \LR, ... causing problems in
macros).

But thanks for the hint. I'll take a look at TXSruled, I never heard
about it before. (I hate the way tables are dealt with inside any
flavour of TeX anyway.)

Mojca