From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/63457 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Aditya Mahajan Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: table background color in first row Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 16:38:04 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: References: <20101111194414.38552cb1@arcor.com> <4CDD8532.4050407@wxs.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1289597876 14377 80.91.229.12 (12 Nov 2010 21:37:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 21:37:56 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Nov 12 22:37:51 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PH1Je-0001h1-2k for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Nov 2010 22:37:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AC46CA81E; Fri, 12 Nov 2010 22:37:49 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id OslyEmMJon31; Fri, 12 Nov 2010 22:37:48 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 614E8CA824; Fri, 12 Nov 2010 22:37:46 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08314CA824 for ; Fri, 12 Nov 2010 22:37:45 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id w05IKYXFghvZ for ; Fri, 12 Nov 2010 22:37:33 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from filter4-til.mf.surf.net (filter4-til.mf.surf.net [194.171.167.220]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13A52CA81E for ; Fri, 12 Nov 2010 22:37:33 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from hellskitchen.mr.itd.umich.edu (smtp.mail.umich.edu [141.211.14.82]) by filter4-til.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5+lenny1) with ESMTP id oACLbV9x009933 for ; Fri, 12 Nov 2010 22:37:32 +0100 Original-Received: FROM adi-laptop (bas3-montreal02-1096680238.dsl.bell.ca [65.94.3.46]) By hellskitchen.mr.itd.umich.edu ID 4CDDB39A.773A4.6692 ; Authuser adityam; 12 Nov 2010 16:37:30 EST In-Reply-To: <4CDD8532.4050407@wxs.nl> User-Agent: Alpine 2.01 (LNX 1266 2009-07-14) X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=141.211.14.82; country=US; region=MI; city=Ann Arbor; postalcode=48109; latitude=42.2923; longitude=-83.7145; metrocode=505; areacode=734; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=42.2923,-83.7145&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 05DulBvQm - 4829ec8d55dc - 20101112 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 194.171.167.216 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:63457 Archived-At: On Fri, 12 Nov 2010, Hans Hagen wrote: > On 11-11-2010 10:54, Aditya Mahajan wrote: >> This is mainly for completeness: >> >> On Thu, 11 Nov 2010, Manfred Lotz wrote: >> >>> and like to have a light gray background for the heading row. >> >>> \starttext >>> >>> \starttable[|l|l|] >> \BL[2] \SR >> % or >> % \CL[gray] \SR >>> \NC \bf Colheader 1 \NC \bf Colheader 2 \NC \SR \HL >>> \NC cell 11 \NC cell 12 \NC \FR >>> \NC cell 11 \NC cell 12 \NC \LR >>> \stoptable >>> >>> \stoptext >> >> Both \BL and \CL work with MkII but in MkIV \BL gives a black rule >> (rather than gray), which \CL gives an error. Hans, any ideas? >> >> For a simple table, you can also use >> >> \startTABLE >> \NC .... \NC ... \NC \NR >> \NC .... \NC ... \NC \NR >> \stopTABLE >> >> which is wrapper around \bTABLE .. \eTABLE. > > The color handling in the old table module is implemented by overloading > TaBlE code and quite a hack. In mkiv it's easy to add color support but then > I'd rather remove some of the old commands. In tabulate one can do > (experimental so not enabled by default): > > \ctxlua{nodes.tasks.enableaction("shipouts","nodes.handlers.backgrounds")} > > \starttabulate[||p||] > \NC test \NC test \NC test \NC \NR > \NC test \NC[green] \input tufte \NC[yellow] test \NC \NR > \NC test \NC test \NC test \NC \NR > \NC test \NC test \NC test \NC \NR > \NC test \NC test \NC test \NC \NR > \NC test \NC test \NC test \NC \NR > \NC[blue] test \NC[red] test \NC test \NC \NR > \NC test \NC test \NC test \NC \NR > \NC test \NC test \NC test \NC \NR > \NC test \NC test \NC test \NC \NR > \NC test \NC test \NC[gray] test \NC \NR > \NC test \NC test \NC test \NC \NR > \NC test \NC test \NC test \NC \NR > \NC[blue] test \NC test \NC test \NC \NR > \NC test \NC test \NC test \NC \NR > \NC test \NC test \NC[magenta] test \NC \NR > \NC test \NC test \NC test \NC \NR > \NC test \NC[cyan] \dorecurse{10}{\input ward }\NC test \NC \NR > \NC test \NC test \NC test \NC \NR > \NC test \NC[yellow] test \NC test \NC \NR > \stoptabulate Can you also add vertical lines and row background colors? > So, if there's interest in the \starttable .. \stoptable mechanism (i have no > idea how often it is used) I can consider weeding and redoing some of that > code (or just rewrite it from scratch which is probably easier). Personally, I do not like the \starttable ... \stoptable macros (the patchup with TaBlE macro is too convoluted) and am happy with the compact \startTABLE syntax. But then, I don't use tables too often anyways. 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 : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________