Fwd: Need help with \definetabulate

[Malte Stien <malte@stien.de>]

Any pointers anyone? I need to get this working and am running out of ideas.

Thank you,
Malte.


Begin forwarded message:

> From: Malte Stien <malte@stien.de>
> Date: 15 October 2012 17:03:42
> To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
> Subject: Re: [NTG-context] Need help with \definetabulate
> 
> Marco,
> 
>> \definetabulate [alpha] [|l|l|l|]
>> \setuptabulate  [alpha] [bodyfont=small]
> 
> This does not work for me quite the way I need it to. I am really just after defining the font-size, but I would like to leave the column setup to the user (I am building an environment and that I would like everyone in my team to use to ensure a consistent look-and-feel or all documents). So, ideally, I would like to do this:
> 
>> \definetabulate [alpha]
>> \setuptabulate  [alpha] [bodyfont=small]
>> \starttext[|l|l|l|]
>> \startalpha
>>   \NC first \NC second \NC third \NC\NR
>> \stopalpha
> 
>> \stoptext
> 
> ...but that does not seem to work. Any way I can achieve this?
> 
>> Feel free to add an example. It's a wiki!
> 
> Sure. Will do, once I have this working.
> 
> Thank you,
> Malte.
> 
> 
>> Hi Malte
>> 
>>> I am trying to define two tabulate styles as follows:
>>> 
>>> - \setuptabulate[split=yes, bodyfont=small]
>>> - \setuptabulate[split=yes]
>> 
>> \definetabulate [alpha] [|l|l|l|]
>> \setuptabulate  [alpha] [bodyfont=small]
>> 
>> \definetabulate [beta] [|l|l|]
>> \setuptabulate  [beta] [bodyfont=small, split=yes]
>> 
>> \starttext
>> \startalpha
>>   \NC first \NC second \NC third \NC\NR
>> \stopalpha
>> 
>> \startbeta
>>   \NC lorem \NC ipsum \NC\NR
>> \stopbeta
>> \stoptext
>> 
>>> ...such that I can just refer to them when I
>>> \starttabulate...\stoptabulate somewhere.
>> 
>> To refer to a table, you place it as a float and use the
>> `reference=tab:alphatable` key. Then in the text you refer to the
>> table, see \in{table}[tab:alphatable].
>> 
>>> I thought, the command \definetabulate would come in handy here,
>>> but I can't work it out and it appears the documentation on that
>>> command is pretty scarce.
>>> 
>>> http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/definetabulate
>> 
>> Feel free to add an example. It's a wiki!
>> 
>> 
>> Marco
> 

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