From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Some align observations
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2012 11:56:02 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.02.1210021154230.9816@ybpnyubfg.ybpnyqbznva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <op.wlj2ktswtpjj8f@lpr>
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On Tue, 2 Oct 2012, Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o. wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm just curious:
>
> I tried to apply align specification to \b/e-TABLE, inframed,
> \start/stop-alignment and \start/stop-tabulate:
>
> ----
> \setupbodyfont[11pt]
>
> \starttext
> \bTABLE
> \setupTABLE[width=4cm,align=middle]
> \setupTABLE[column][1][align=left]
> \setupTABLE[column][4][align=right]
> \bTR
> \bTD ali=L\eTD
> \bTD B\eTD
> \bTD \inframed[width=1.5cm,align=left]{ali=L}\eTD
> \bTD ali=R\eTD
> \eTR
> \eTABLE
>
> \startalignment[left]
> \input tufte
> \stopalignment
>
> \starttabulate[|pl|pc|pr|]
> \NC ali=L \input tufte\NC\input tufte\NC ali=R \input tufte\NC\NR
> \stoptabulate
> \stoptext
> ----
>
> The text aligned by "align=left" inside TABLE cell, inside \inframed and
> inside \startalignment is aligned to the right border of the "bounding box"
> (ragged left).
>
> The text aligned by "align=left" inside \start/stop-tabulate is aligned to
> the left edge of the "bounding box".
That is not align=left but the `l` key. Read it as leftflushed :)
> I must admit than tabulate's behavior seems more natural to me, but this may
> be just my point of view.
>
> Anyway, why the behavior of alignment specification is different for
> {\b/e-TABLE, \inframed, \start/stop-alignment} and {\start/stop-tabulate}?
>
> Wouldn't be nice to unite it?
This is for historic reasons, (I think that there is a wiki FAQ on this).
The easiest solution is to forget about left and right and use leftflushed
and rightflushed.
Aditya
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-02 14:30 Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o.
2012-10-02 15:56 ` Aditya Mahajan [this message]
2012-10-02 16:08 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2012-10-02 16:13 ` Aditya Mahajan
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