[NTG-context] Re: \starttable questions

[Jim <zlists+context@jdvb.ca>]

On Fri, Jan 26, 2024 at 09:55 (+0100), Aditya Mahajan wrote:

> On Thu, 25 Jan 2024, Jim wrote:

>> The nice thing about your setup above is that it is nice and structured.
>> But if a table calls for some row, column or cell to be treated
>> differently, I guess I am in for some more reading.

> You can do: \setupTABLE[2][3] to select the formatting for row 3 and column 2 (or the other way around ... always forget). In the worst case, you can always do 

> ...
> \NC .. \NC[options] ... \NC \NR
> ....

> Each cell is just a \framed[...]; so all options for \framed[...] work for Natural Tables. 

Aditya

thanks very much for that information.

I still appreciate the conciseness of the TaBlE macros (and thus
\starttable ... \endtable), but I also appreciate the power of the TABLE
macros.

                                Jim
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