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From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Setting options for every n-th row in natural TABLEs
Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2012 10:40:43 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.02.1209031039080.29258@ybpnyubfg.ybpnyqbznva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <op.wj1qamnwwshuv7@lpr>

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On Mon, 3 Sep 2012, Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o. wrote:

>> Natural tables have “odd” and “even” keywords for \setupTABLE but none in 
>> the way you like it. What I would do is to use a overlay in combination 
>> with metapost to create the background but there is no global register to 
>> access the current column/row of a cell, e.g. \currenttablecolumn (this 
>> name is already used by tables) and \currenttablerow.
>
> ... Maybe \currentTABLEcolumn (no collision with tables' \currenttablecolumn) 
> and \currentTABLErow could be defined for this purpose.

I agree. In addition, \currentTABLEheaderrow, \currentTABLEheadercolumn, 
\currentTABLEfooterrow, \currentTABLEfootercolumn, and the \max... version 
of all of these are also useful at the user level.

Aditya

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-03 14:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-02 15:59 Aditya Mahajan
2012-09-02 18:58 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2012-09-03  0:39   ` Aditya Mahajan
2012-09-03  4:37     ` Wolfgang Schuster
2012-09-03  6:14   ` Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o.
2012-09-03 14:40     ` Aditya Mahajan [this message]
2012-09-04 14:34   ` Hans Hagen
2012-09-04 15:21     ` Aditya Mahajan
2012-09-04 17:33       ` Sietse Brouwer
2012-09-05  7:01         ` Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o.
2012-09-02 19:56 ` Procházka Lukáš
2012-09-03  0:41   ` Aditya Mahajan

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