Background color of table cells?

Background color of table cells?

[Alasdair McAndrew]

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I'm setting up a table, for which I'd like the first column to have a
background of a middle gray.  According to the wiki, something like this
should work:

\starttable[|p(4cm)|p(11.75cm)|]
  \HL
  \BL[1]\AR
  \VL\tfa{\bf A bit of text}\VL A lot of text, which will be broken up into
several lines\VL\AR
  \HL
\stoptable

There are two problems here: (1) the background covers only the line of "A
bit of text" and not the entire cell, and (2) the background color is too
light.

I experimented with this from the wiki:

\starttabulate[|CR{red}c|CC{yellow}c|CM{green}c|CL{blue}c|]
   \NC test \NC test \NC test \NC test \NC \NR
   \NC test \NC test \NC test \NC test \NC \NR
   \NC test \NC test \NC test \NC test \NC \NR
   \NC test \NC test \NC test \NC test \NC \NR
\stoptabulate

but it produced no colors at all (and yes, I do have colors turned on).

How can I achieve the effect I'm after?

Thanks,
Alasdair

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Re: Background color of table cells?

[Ondřej Hošek]

On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 03:53, Alasdair McAndrew <amca01@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm setting up a table, for which I'd like the first column to have a
> background of a middle gray.  According to the wiki, something like this
> should work:
>
> \starttable[|p(4cm)|p(11.75cm)|]
>   \HL
>   \BL[1]\AR
>   \VL\tfa{\bf A bit of text}\VL A lot of text, which will be broken up into
> several lines\VL\AR
>   \HL
> \stoptable
>
> There are two problems here: (1) the background covers only the line of "A
> bit of text" and not the entire cell, and (2) the background color is too
> light.
>
> I experimented with this from the wiki:
>
> \starttabulate[|CR{red}c|CC{yellow}c|CM{green}c|CL{blue}c|]
>    \NC test \NC test \NC test \NC test \NC \NR
>    \NC test \NC test \NC test \NC test \NC \NR
>    \NC test \NC test \NC test \NC test \NC \NR
>    \NC test \NC test \NC test \NC test \NC \NR
> \stoptabulate
>
> but it produced no colors at all (and yes, I do have colors turned on).
>
> How can I achieve the effect I'm after?
>
> Thanks,
> Alasdair

Not sure how to do it with all the other table interfaces (what is
their deprecation status anyway?), but:

% set background of first (1) column (c) to gray
\setupTABLE[c][1][background=color,backgroundcolor=gray]

\bTABLE

\bTR \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \eTR
\bTR \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \eTR
\bTR \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \eTR
\bTR \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \eTR

\eTABLE

The syntax looks rather familiar if you've ever constructed tables in
HTML. You may wish to define your own color (before setupTABLE, and
replacing "gray" with "myowngray" there):

\definecolor[myowngray][s=0.3]

"s=" defines a grayscale color; 0 is black, 1 is white. Of course, you
may choose a different name.

Cheers,
~~ Ondra
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