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From: Cecil Westerhof <cldwesterhof@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: dorecurse in table
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:19:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y6bepla9.fsf@linux-lqcw.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1009061714140.17668@ybpnyubfg.ybpnyqbznva> (Aditya Mahajan's message of "Mon, 6 Sep 2010 17:18:11 -0400 (EDT)")

Op maandag 6 sep 2010 23:18 CEST schreef Aditya Mahajan:

>> The following code does what I want:
>> \blank
>> \SetTableToWidth{\textwidth}
>> \starttable[|lp(0.90\textwidth)|]
>> Some text \SR
>> \SR
>> \HL
>> \SR
>> \HL
>> \SR
>> \HL
>> \SR
>> \HL
>> \stoptable
>> \blank

[CUT]

> Table and expansion are tricky. The error is caused by the last \HL and
> goes away if you add another line.
>
> But if you only want four horizontal lines, why not use \thinrules
>
> \thinrules[n=4]

That is what I want. I have now defined the following much simpler
macro:
    \def\GetComment[#1]{
      \blank
      #1\par
      \thinrules[n=4]
      \blank
    }

and I call it with:
    \GetComment[What was the most useful for you?]

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      reply	other threads:[~2010-09-06 22:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-06 20:29 Cecil Westerhof
2010-09-06 21:18 ` Aditya Mahajan
2010-09-06 22:19   ` Cecil Westerhof [this message]

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