Wolfgang,

Thanks for this.  It works, however, the page where the table starts has
three lines of text before the table starts.  After inserting
"split=repeat", the table jumps to the next page, leaving the rest of
the page with the three lines of text completely blank.  This did not
happen without the "split=repeat".

Geert

Geert Dobbels schrieb am 03.04.2020 um 11:57:

Hello,

The sample below has 2 problems I cannot find the solution for:

I am reading a table from a CSV file and want to typeset it via \xtable.

The xtable as defined below works, it splits over several pages, but the header does not repeat. I have seen examples in the mailing list where people put the "\startxtable.....\stopxtable" within a \placefigure, but as soon as I try this, I get an error message: "missing } or endgroup", although I doublechecked the "}" and I see no error.

The other issue I have: Since xtable requires me to read the header line separately in order to put it between \startxtablehead and \stopxtablehead, I access the csv buffer twice: the first time, I only read the first line, and the second time, I read starting from the second line. My problem here is that I do not know beforehand the number of lines in the csv file. So in my second \doloopfromto I give the second argument a number high enough to be sure it reads all the lines. It works fine, but I would like to know if there is a way to read the number of lines in the csv file to use the exact number of lines, instead of guessing.

\usemodule[handlecsv]

\opencsvfile{systaprov2.csv}

\starttext


\startbuffer[loop]
\startxrow
\startxcell[left] \cA \stopxcell
\startxcell[left] \cB \stopxcell
\startxcell[left] \cC \stopxcell
\startxcell[left] \cD \stopxcell
\startxcell \cE \stopxcell
\startxcell[left] \cF \stopxcell
\startxcell \cG \stopxcell
\startxcell \cH \stopxcell
\doifdefined{cI}{\startxcell \cI \stopxcell}
\doifdefined{cJ}{\startxcell \cJ \stopxcell}
\doifdefined{cK}{\startxcell [left] \cK \stopxcell}
\stopxrow
\stopbuffer

\setupxtable[offset=0cm,
frame=off,
bottomframe=on,
framecolor=gray,
option=stretch,
align=middle]

\setupxtable[head][background=color,
backgroundcolor=gray,
topframe=on,
bottomframe=on,
framecolor=black,
foregroundcolor=blue]

\setupxtable[left][align=right]

\startxtable[header=repeat]

Add "split=repeat" to \startxtable.

\startxtablehead[head]
\doloopfromto{1}{1}{\getbuffer[loop]}
\stopxtablehead
\startxtablebody
\doloopfromto{2}{500}{\getbuffer[loop]}
\stopxtablebody

\stopxtable

\stoptext

Wolfgang