From: luigi scarso <luigi.scarso@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Roberto Giacomelli <giaconet.mailbox@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: TaBlE from Lua
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 07:35:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTikjMrm0Ft7auUedLeafDmjts4T-HC6B7e0i8a+j@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <330D6A41-0B03-4ECF-917E-6A50064375B5@storytotell.org>
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 2:45 AM, Daniel Lyons <fusion@storytotell.org> wrote:
>
> On Feb 23, 2011, at 6:16 PM, Philipp Gesang wrote:
>
>> On 2011-02-23 <17:07:38>, Daniel Lyons wrote:
>>> Is there a convenient way to create TaBlE tables from Lua? If so,
>>> where can I read about it?
>>
>> Good evening, Daniel!
>>
>> [-1] Isn’t TaBlE deprecated? <http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Tables_Overview>
>
> I didn't know that!
>
>> [0] If you aim for convenience, wouldn’t you rather want to
>> switch to \[start|stop]tabulate? Its syntax is very similar
>> and there are a few examples to learn from in the context
>> source code.
>
> My particular situation is a bit more involved. I want to put SQL in my ConTeXt source and have it run it against my database and format the result nicely in my document. I think I see how to do it, I just need to be able to take the parsed output and make the visually appealing table.
Have a look at
http://robitex.wordpress.com/2011/02/22/postgresql-gestisce-i-dati-lualatex-li-stampa/
It's in italian & latex & postgres, but pretty clear.
--
luigi
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-23 23:07 Daniel Lyons
2011-02-23 23:19 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2011-02-24 1:16 ` Philipp Gesang
2011-02-24 1:45 ` Daniel Lyons
2011-02-24 6:35 ` luigi scarso [this message]
2011-02-24 6:48 ` Daniel Lyons
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