From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/43946 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Aditya Mahajan Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: span ROWS in \starttables? Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 09:37:00 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: <20080911205818.GB31572@gaston.couberia.bzh> <200809120813.17617.alan.braslau@cea.fr> <115224fb0809112334j5442af85r9cd53be0b5307b80@mail.gmail.com> <200809121027.34656.alan.braslau@cea.fr> 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: ger.gmane.org 1221226760 9194 80.91.229.12 (12 Sep 2008 13:39:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 13:39:20 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Sep 12 15:40:05 2008 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 1Ke8sB-0006m2-H0 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:39:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E6421FF66; Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:38:40 +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 24831-01-11; Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:37:40 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D862F1FF35; Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:37:40 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7F3E1FF2C for ; Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:37:39 +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 29741-01-2 for ; Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:37:02 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from skycaptain.mr.itd.umich.edu (smtp.mail.umich.edu [141.211.93.160]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19DCC1FF35 for ; Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:37:01 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: FROM adi-laptop.local (c-68-40-40-226.hsd1.mi.comcast.net [68.40.40.226]) BY skycaptain.mr.itd.umich.edu ID 48CA707C.B642C.6605 ; 12 Sep 2008 09:37:00 -0400 In-Reply-To: <200809121027.34656.alan.braslau@cea.fr> User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (DEB 882 2007-12-20) 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:43946 Archived-At: On Fri, 12 Sep 2008, Alan BRASLAU wrote: > On Friday 12 September 2008 08:34:15 Wolfgang Schuster wrote: >> On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 8:13 AM, Alan BRASLAU wrote: >>> >>> Is there any mechanism to span ROWS in (\start)tables >>> similar to column spanning through \use{3}{}? >>> The aim is to produce a multi-row column entry >>> as can be done via \bTD[nr=3] in \bTABLE. >> >> \NC \use{3} ... \NC ... >> >> or >> >> \NC \THREE ... \NC ... >> >> You can find more information on the wiki page: >> http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Table >> >> Wolfgang > > This mechanism spans COLUMNS not rows. > > I would like to produce > --------- > | | b | > | |---| > | A | c | > | |---| > | | d | > --------- > using \starttables, > as can be done with: > \setupTABLE[c][1][align=lohi] > \bTABLE > \bTR \bTC[nr=3] A \eTC\bTC b \eTC \eTR > \bTR \bTC c \eTC \eTR > \bTR \bTC d \eTC \eTR > \eTABLE > > Note that: > \starttables[|c|c|] > \HL > \VL \VL b \VL\AR > \DC \DL \DR > \VL A \VL c \VL\AR > \DC \DL \DR > \VL \VL d \VL\LR > \HL > \stoptables > does not quite do the job, > since the aim is to put a tall object > "A" spanning the three rows. You can use \LOW and \LOWER. See http://www.tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb29-1/tb91mahajan.pdf Section 6. 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________