dashed or dotted lines in tables

dashed or dotted lines in tables

[Ricard Roca]

Hi to all,

is there any way to make dashed or dotted lines in a table (instead of 
continuous) with ConTeXt?

Thanks,

Ricard Roca

Re: dashed or dotted lines in tables

[Thomas A. Schmitz]

On Oct 26, 2006, at 4:05 PM, Ricard Roca wrote:

> Hi to all,
>
> is there any way to make dashed or dotted lines in a table (instead of
> continuous) with ConTeXt?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ricard Roca

You can draw the lines in a table by using Metapost (see the example  
in enattab.pdf, p. 9 and 10; there, you can easily have all kinds of  
dashed, dotted, and colored patterns, Does that help?

Thomas

Re: dashed or dotted lines in tables

[Ricard Roca]

Yes, more or less.

I meant drawing the normal horizontal and vertical rules that separate 
rows and columns dashed or dotted instead of continuous, but using TeX 
itself, i.e. with an option or command from one of the table packages, 
redefining some internal macro, etc. But I see that's not (easily) 
doable, and one has to use Metapost.

Thanks

Ricard

Re: dashed or dotted lines in tables

[Sanjoy Mahajan]

> I meant drawing the normal horizontal and vertical rules that
> separate rows and columns dashed or dotted instead of continuous,
> but using TeX itself

Check in the TeXbook (I'm far O(10^4) km from my copy right now) about
leaders and \hrulefill, that might do it.

-Sanjoy

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