Manuscript XY
Some text in Greek or Hebrew or whatever	This is the translation

Manuscript XY

Some text in Greek or Hebrew or whatever

This is the translation

Le 27 = nov. 2021 =C3=A0 17:45, denis.maier@unibe.ch a =C3=A9crit :

Bonjour Jean-Philippe

Thank you for your response. That sounds very = promising. I don=E2=80=99t remember why I didn=E2=80=99t use natural = tables when I=E2=80=99ve started setting things up for this journal. I = think I=E2=80=99d might have had something to do with tables that break = across pages. (At least, this is whathttps://wiki.contextgarden.net/Tables_Overview currently says: = extremetables are said to be better when page breaking is involved.)
Have = you ever noticed problems in that area?

Best,
Denis

Von: Jean-Philippe Rey <jean-philippe.rey@centralesupelec.fr>
Gesendet: Samstag, 27. November 2021 = 17:36
An: mailing list for ConTeXt = users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Maier, Denis Christian (UB) = <denis.maier@unibe.ch>
Betreff: Re: [NTG-context] Have a = cell span multiple columns with tabulate

Dear Denis,

Le = 27 nov. 2021 =C3=A0 13:25, Denis Maier via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl> a = =C3=A9crit :

Hi,

I=E2=80=99m using tabulate for parallel texts = (source and translation next to each other). The top of each table = should consist of only one cell covering both columns with centered = content. Is that possible?

A HTML = equivalent will look roughly like this:

<table>
<tr>
    <th = colspan=3D"2">Manuscript XY </th>
  </tr>
= <tr>
    <td>Some text in Greek = or Hebrew or whatever</td>
    <td>This is = the translation</td>
</tr>
</table>

With = ConteXt I=E2=80=99d like to do something like this

\starttabulate[|p(1.2cm)|p(1.2cm)|]
\NC Manuscript XY \NR
\NC Some text in Greek or Hebrew = or whatever
  \NC This is the translation \NC = \NR            = ;            &= nbsp;           &nb= sp;
\stoptabulate

This compiles (interestingly?), but the cells = at the top aren=E2=80=99t merged.

Any ideas ?

I know that natural tables offer more in this = regard, but those seem not to be so well suited for parallel = texts.

I switched to = natural tables a long time ago and that's how I would do it:

\starttext
\bTABLE[width=3D8cm, frame=3Doff]
\setupTABLE[c][1][roffset=3D0.5em]
\setupTABLE[c][2][loffset=3D0.5em]
\bTR
          \bTD[nc=3D2, = align=3Dcenter, bottomframe=3Don] Manuscript XY \eTD
\eTR\bTR
\bTD
          Some text in Greek or = Hebrew or whatever.

          The text can comprise = multiple paragraphs.
          Or even lists and other = goodies :
          \startitemize[intro, = packed]
          \item first item
          \item second item
          \stopitemize
\eTD\bTD
          This is the = translation
\eTD
\eTR
\eTABLE
\stoptext

I haven't = seen drawbacks with parallel texts (yet) and I found natural tables very = flexible.

Hope it helps,

--
Jean-Philippe Rey
jean-philippe.rey@centralesupelec.fr
91192 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex - France
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Jean-Philippe Rey

jean-philippe.rey@centralesupelec.fr

91192 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex - = France

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