Re: Fwd: Need help with \definetabulate

[Wolfgang Schuster <wolfgang.schuster@gmail.com>]

Am 16.10.2012 um 13:08 schrieb Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>:

> On 16-10-2012 12:52, Sietse Brouwer wrote:
>> The problem is that \starttabulate does not accept a format parameter.
>> 
>> Cheap solution (only figured it out now, or I'd have replied before): use
>> 
>> \setuptabulate[alpha][format={....}]
>> 
>> before every \startalpha call.
>> It's not very contexty syntax, but on the other hand it requires no
>> new definitions at all.
>> 
>> Full example below.
>> Cheers,
>> Sietse
>> 
>> \definetabulate[alpha][|l|] % dummy format
>> \setuptabulate[alpha][style=bold]
>> 
>> \setuptabulate[alpha][format={|r|r|r|}]
>> \startalpha
>> \NC r \NC r \NC r \NC \NR
>> \NC test \NC test \NC test \NC \NR
>> \stopalpha
>> 
>> \setuptabulate[alpha][format={|c|c|}]
>> \startalpha
>> \NC c \NC c \NC \NR
>> \NC test \NC test \NC \NR
>> \stopalpha
> 
> There's also:
> 
> \starttext
> 
> \definetabulate
>  [whatever]
>  [|l|r|]
> 
> \definetabulate
>  [whatever][else]
>  [|l|c|r|]
> 
> \startwhatever
> \NC l    \NC r     \NC \NR
> \NC left \NC right \NC \NR
> \stopwhatever
> 
> \startwhatever[else]
> \NC l    \NC m      \NC r     \NC \NR
> \NC left \NC middle \NC right \NC \NR
> \stopwhatever
> 
> \stoptext

Can you add a second argument to custom tabulation which would allow one to write

  \startwhatever[format={…}]

or

  \startwhatever[else][format={…}]

to change the number of columns and format for a certain table.

Wolfgang
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