From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/35824 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Hamid Kamrani" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Booktabs equivalent in Context Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 01:06:59 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20070803171006.gn644njnhw88sggg@web.mail.umich.edu> <20070808182353.5z60n2ipesg88s0o@web.mail.umich.edu> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1186638137 5061 80.91.229.12 (9 Aug 2007 05:42:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 05:42:17 +0000 (UTC) To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Aug 09 07:42:15 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IJ0mh-0004ik-7e for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Aug 2007 07:42:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98D4B1FC91; Thu, 9 Aug 2007 07:41:41 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 00736-01-16; Thu, 9 Aug 2007 07:41:28 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83F5920158; Thu, 9 Aug 2007 07:07:05 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 388C020158 for ; Thu, 9 Aug 2007 07:07:04 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 29466-06 for ; Thu, 9 Aug 2007 07:07:00 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mu-out-0910.google.com (mu-out-0910.google.com [209.85.134.189]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE4AF20154 for ; Thu, 9 Aug 2007 07:06:59 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by mu-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id g7so383085muf for ; Wed, 08 Aug 2007 22:06:59 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.78.204.7 with SMTP id b7mr734315hug.1186636019166; Wed, 08 Aug 2007 22:06:59 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.78.154.11 with HTTP; Wed, 8 Aug 2007 22:06:59 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20070808182353.5z60n2ipesg88s0o@web.mail.umich.edu> Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:35824 Archived-At: Aditya, In the example you give with CMID you have only two column preambles whereas the table has 3 columns and if one adds the missing preamble then one gets an error. Some how your new code breaks the calculation for number of columns. -Hamid On 8/8/07, Aditya Mahajan wrote: > Quoting Johannes Graumann : > > > Aditya Mahajan wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> The question of how to get tables equivalent to latex's booktabs > >> package has been discussed quite a few times in the past. Booktabs > >> package provides (top|mid|bottom)rule commands and a cmidrule command. > >> The top and bottom rules are 0.08em thick, the midrule is 0.05em thick, > >> and the cmidrules are 0.03em thick. The cmidrules do not extend beyond > >> the columns edge. Here is an example of how to do something similar > >> using tables in context . > >> > >> To me this looks exactly similar to the example in the booktabs manual. > >> Am I missing something, or is it fair to say that context can generate > >> booktabs like tables? > > > Hello, > > > > I'm one of the booktab-equivalent requesters and in my case the request is > > motivated by the (sadly German-only) > > http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/german/tabsatz/tabsatz.pdf > > Please compare examples on pages 4 and 5 for the cmidrule functionality I'm > > missing in ConTeXt. The clarity you can give classy looking tables with > > trimmed cmidrules is even more evident in the example on page 9. There's > > lots of more use of this in the document, but it gets too esoteric to be > > easily grasped quickly (IMHO). > > Here is one attempt, which works correctly. Of course the best solution > is to forget about the \omit and set the halign preamble correctly. But > I have not been able to figure that out yet. > > \starttext > > \def\CMID{\normalTABLEshortrule} > > \unprotect > \def\TableNC > {\checkTABLEautorow > \nextTABLEgrayline > \ifnum\currentTABLEcolumn>\maxTABLEcolumn > \setTABLEerror\TABLEmissingrow > \handleTABLEerror > \else > \global\advance\currentTABLEcolumn \plusone > \ifnum\currentTABLEcolumn=1\relax > \normalTABLEquote > \else > \fancyTABLEquote > \fi > \fi} > > \def\fancyTABLEquote {\unskip\!ttRightGlue&\omit\hskip2em&} % " > \protect > > \setuptables[rulethickness=0.03em] > > \starttable[s0|l|l|] > \HL[3] > \NC Monat \NC 1965 \NC 1966 \AR > \NC \CMID \NC \CMID \NC \CMID \DR > \NC September \NC 2000 \NC 1700 \AR > \HL[3] > \stoptable > > \stoptext > > > Aditya > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! > > maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net > archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________