From: luigi scarso <luigi.scarso@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Tables for newbies [WAS Re: imbalanced columns]
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 20:21:19 +0200 [thread overview]
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2010/7/16 Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد <ishamid@colostate.edu>
> Hi Peter,
>
>
> On Fri, 16 Jul 2010 07:05:19 -0600, Peter Münster <pmlists@free.fr> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jul 15 2010, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote:
>>
>> Question for all: for MkIV, should we recommend ONLY natural tables to
>>> newcomers, e.g., in a ConTeXt Book?
>>>
>>
>> Hello Idris,
>>
>> For me, it's yes! But newcomers need to pay attention in some cases:
>> - alignment (see issue http://tracker.luatex.org/view.php?id=427 )
>> - TABLEhead is repeated, TABLEfoot is not
>> (see issue http://tracker.luatex.org/view.php?id=116 )
>>
>
> Sure, hopefully by the time we get to that point the bugs will be fixed.
>
> I also see that Wolfgang has wrapped some of the old Tables syntax into a
> module (as Aditya hinted)... I missed all of these developments :-)
>
> The Tables syntax is certainly less verbose, and may be useful for
> beginners. But for pedagogical purposes it makes sense to consider
> Table/Tables deprecated, if not obsolete... So the pedagogical challenge is
> to make TABLE as easy as possible, perhaps teaching \start/stopTABLE as
> intro and \b/eTABLE as advanced.
>
>
> A top-down approach
1) \bTABLE
2) \starttabulate
3) chapter 22 of TeXbook
1) is much easy than 2) which is much easy than 3
1) is slower than 2) which is slower than 3)
--
luigi
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Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-14 18:42 imbalanced columns Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
2010-07-14 18:51 ` Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
2010-07-14 20:26 ` Peter Rolf
2010-07-15 0:35 ` Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
2010-07-15 8:33 ` Peter Rolf
2010-07-15 14:53 ` Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
2010-07-15 17:12 ` Peter Rolf
2010-07-15 17:16 ` Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
2010-07-15 17:28 ` Peter Rolf
2010-07-15 18:04 ` Peter Rolf
2010-07-15 17:24 ` Peter Rolf
2010-07-15 17:37 ` Aditya Mahajan
2010-07-15 17:45 ` Tables for newbies [WAS Re: imbalanced columns] Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
2010-07-15 17:57 ` luigi scarso
2010-07-15 18:42 ` Hans Hagen
2010-07-16 13:05 ` Peter Münster
2010-07-16 15:51 ` Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
2010-07-16 18:21 ` luigi scarso [this message]
2010-07-15 18:43 ` imbalanced columns Hans Hagen
2010-07-15 18:47 ` Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
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