From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/7733 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Daniel Pittman Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: How to apply a color or screen background to a tabulate (ortable) cell? Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 00:48:49 +1000 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <87g01toyem.fsf@inanna.rimspace.net> References: <5.1.0.14.1.20020418155255.07e7b558@server-1> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035398178 21738 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:36:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:36:18 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.1.20020418155255.07e7b558@server-1> (Hans Hagen's message of "Thu, 18 Apr 2002 15:55:21 +0200") Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:7733 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:7733 On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Hans Hagen wrote: > At 10:12 PM 4/18/2002 +1000, Daniel Pittman wrote: > >>I know that the 'f' is the symbolic name of the position and that 'x' >>is the predefined background mentioned above. I couldn't work out >>exactly what the set of macros for defining points did, though. > > indeed it's specifying symbolic names and begin/end points; this > permits spanning cells in quite strange ways. Yes. If I ever need to do a more complex graphical table thing, this will be incredibly useful. It's been good to try and work it out. :) [...] >>Finally, as I mentioned, trying to read the source to better >>understand those macros made my brain melt. The ConTeXt sources scare >>me occasionally -- there is /so/ much magic in there... > > be warned: most of the source is not meant for reading I figure that it's the thing to do between reading the documentation and asking on the mailing list -- about a third of the time it answers my question, often because there are examples in the source. So, if I didn't try then you would be even more bombarded by questions than you are now. For example: Is there any way to specify the inter-cell spacing of two columns when using the bTABLE/eTABLE interface? I tried the 'distance' argument to bTD but, sadly, it didn't work. I also noted that this didn't do anything -- but didn't generate any message. Should I expect an error if I give an illegal argument to a ConTeXt command, at least in general? Daniel -- All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else. -- Mae West