I had played around with strut=yes, but had not realized I also  
needed to set autostrut=no.  That approach ended up working best; my  
initial solution broke aligncharacter, and I like the table  
environment to reset.  It is a bit odd that it resets to something  
different than the default.

As an aside, what books are good for learning TeX programming for  
ConTeXt?  Anything besides the TeXBook (and I saw TeX by Topic  
mentioned on the list the other day).


Thanks again,
Brian


On Mar 29, 2007, at 4:34 AM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

>
>
> 2007/3/28, Brian R. Landy <landy@alumni.caltech.edu>:
> Hi,
>
> I am having a problem using nested natural tables, to which I have a
> solution but feel that it my not be the proper approach.  I'm pretty
> much a TeX and ConTeXt novice.
>
> The problem is that the row height it reduced when a table is nested,
> breaking vertical text alignment across cells.  In my example the
> cells "SSSSS" and "Swap" to not align vertically due to the presence
> of the "p".  I have an example of the problem and my fix below.
>
> I'm curious if someone knows a better way to fix this.
>
> Thanks for your help,
> Brian
>
>
> Hi Brian,
>
> I will show a few solution to your problem for the following table.
> We will start with a simple table that contains the error.
>
> \starttext
>
> \bTABLE
>   \bTR
>     \bTD
>       {\bTABLE
>       \bTR
>         \bTD SSSS \eTD
>         \bTD Swap \eTD
>       \bTR
>     \eTABLE}
>     \bTD
>   \eTR
> \eTABLE
>
> \stoptext
>
>
> Your own solution with adding a strut to the inner table can be done
> in a better way by adding the strut to the setup of the beginning  
> of the table.
>
> \starttext
>
> \bTABLE
>   \bTR
>     \bTD
>       {\bTABLE[left=\strut]
>         \bTR
>           \bTD SSSS \eTD
>           \bTD Swap \eTD
>         \bTR
>       \eTABLE}
>     \bTD
>   \eTR
> \eTABLE
>
> \stoptext
>
>
>
>
>
> Another mothod is to use the same method, that is used for the
> outer table. I took a look into the source and found the following  
> method,
> that works also.
>
> \starttext
>
> \bTABLE
>   \bTR
>     \bTD
>       {\bTABLE[strut=yes,autostrut=no]
>          \bTR
>            \bTD SSSS \eTD
>            \bTD Swap \eTD
>          \bTR
>        \eTABLE}
>     \bTD
>   \eTR
> \eTABLE
>
> \stoptext
>
>
> After that a was interested why we need to set the values in the
> last example again, because they are already set in core-ntb.
> The solution is, the values in nested tables are removed and replaced
> by new ones. This behaviour can be changed and is shown in my last
> example.
>
> \starttext
>
> \setfalse\resetTABLEmode
>
> \bTABLE
>   \bTR
>     \bTD
>       {\bTABLE
>          \bTR
>            \bTD SSSS \eTD
>            \bTD Swap \eTD
>          \bTR
>        \eTABLE}
>     \bTD
>   \eTR
> \eTABLE
>
> \stoptext
>
>
> Another example that shows the effect of \resetTABLEmode is:
>
> \starttext
>
> %\settrue\resetTABLEmode % default setting
>
> \setupTABLE[frame=off]
>
> \bTABLE
>   \bTR
>     \bTD
>       {\bTABLE\bTR\bTD Text \eTD\eTR\eTABLE}
>     \eTD
>     \bTD
>       Text
>     \eTD
>   \eTR
> \eTABLE
>
> \setfalse\resetTABLEmode
>
> \bTABLE
>   \bTR
>     \bTD
>       {\bTABLE\bTR\bTD Text \eTD\eTR\eTABLE}
>     \eTD
>     \bTD
>       Text
>     \eTD
>   \eTR
> \eTABLE
>
> \stoptext
>
>
> Wolfgang
>
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