Re: Command \NN in table?

[Morgan Brassel <morgan.brassel@free.fr>]

> 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)?

Thank you for your quick answer, Aditya.
In fact, I saw this example at the end of Hans's This Way #3:

\starttext
\starttabulate[|r|]
\NN 1.@@  \NR
\NN 1.1@  \NR
\NN 1.11  \NR
\NN 11.11 \NR
\stoptabulate
\stoptext

and I would like to get the same result replacing tabulate by table...
What I like about \digits (and \NN) is that you can change the number 
format (english Vs french for example) without rewriting anything.

>
>> 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

I see. So maybe I should switch from table to tabulate for now, as I don't 
need vertical lines... I'll try that as a first solution.

Morgan
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