Re: 2NUP, spreading a table on 2 pages

[Antoine Junod <toto@tots-ns.net>]

Antoine Junod <toto@tots-ns.net> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com> writes:
>
>> Am 20.01.2009 um 09:20 schrieb Antoine Junod:
>>
>>> Hello List,
>>>
>>> I'm trying to design a little booklet on the form two A5 pages on a A4
>>> sheet. It's not hard to do as it is well documented.
>>>
>>> The problem is the following: I would like to add a table (actually a
>>> people list with firstname, lastname, mobile, address and so on and so
>>> on) that is quite wide. The idea is to put it on a double page (ie,
>>> when you open the booklet, the table is on both the left and the right
>>> page).
>>>
>>> The easy way would be to 1) manually cut the table in two tables (a
>>> left one and a right one) that fit on a page and 2) to put them each
>>> on their own page, beeing sure the left one is on a left page. Here,
>>> the difficulty is to align both tables accross the pages.
>>
>>
>> How about linetables?
>>
>> \setuplinetable[nx=2,width=.125\textwidth]
>>
>> \starttext
>>
>> \startlinetable
>> \NC firstname \NC lastname \NC phone       \NC mobile      \NC postal
>> code \NC city    \NC address        \NC\NR
>> \NC John      \NC Jonhsons \NC 0800/987654 \NC 0171/123456 \NC  12345
>> \NC New TeX \NC Meta street 12 \NC\NR
>> \stoplinetable
>>
>> \stoptext
>
> Excellent, thanks Wolfgang. It exactly matches my needs :)

In fact my reply was a bit fast: in the example below the table is
split on pages 2 and 3. But the lines of the table are not
aligned. I'll dig the sources too see if it's possible to do that. But
if anyone has a solution, I'm interested :)

Thanks for your help,
-AJ

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Page setup
% Use A5 pages on A4 paper
\setuppapersize[A5][A4]

% Arrange the A5 pages such that there are two of them on each A4
% sheet. They are arranged such that they can be send to the printer
% set to print on both pages, flipping on the long edge.
\setuparranging[2UP,rotated,doublesided]

% The layout of the page
\setuplayout[margin=1cm,width=middle,height=middle,topspace=0cm,backspace=1.2cm]

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Colors
% Enable the use of colors for the whole document
\setupcolors[state=start]

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Debug
% Display the layout borders
\showframe

% Display the grid
\showgrid

% Display the current layout setup value
%\showsetups

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Font
% Accept accents by default as input, like é, à and others.
\enableregime[utf]

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Beginning of the document
\starttext

\section{Le mot du président}
\dorecurse{2}{\input tufte \par}

\section{Les comptes}

\section{Les récits}
\subsection{La dora}
\subsection{Mon premier match de polo}
\subsection{La piscine}

\section{List des membres}
% magic
\setuplinetable[nx=2,width=.125\textwidth]
\startlinetable
\NC firstname \NC lastname \NC phone       \NC mobile      \NC postal
code \NC city    \NC address        \NC\NR
\NC John      \NC Jonhsons \NC 0800/987654 \NC 0171/123456 \NC  12345
\NC New TeX \NC Meta street 12 \NC\NR
\stoplinetable

\stoptext
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