Re: Command \NN in table?

[Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>]

On Sat, 22 Mar 2008, Morgan Brassel wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> Sorry to bother you again with that question, but I didn't get any answers
> last time, and I think this would make a useful new feature in ConTeXt:

What exactly are you trying to achieve? I do not completely know all the 
features of digits. But table has a numerical columns n and q, see 
http://www.tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb29-1/tb91mahajan.pdf. There are also 
\HC (hook column) which can do certain things. Can you give an example of 
a table (placing \digit commands by hand)?

> is
> there a particular reason why the \NN command is defined in 'tabulate' and
> not in 'table'?

'table' is just a wrapper around TaBlE macros, and due to the syntax sugar 
of ConTeXt, some of the features of the original TaBlE macros are lost. 
(Though I do not know if \digits thing is possible with the original TaBlE 
macros or not)

> Would it be hard to add it in 'table'?

I believe so. The TaBlE code is *very* old, written at a time when TeX was 
limited in terms of features and memory. Tabluate are more recenlt 
relatively, and written from scratch by Hans. Actually, if you request for 
features of table that are missing in tabulate, that might be easier to 
implement.

Aditya
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