From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: starttabulate questions
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 20:11:46 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.WNT.0.9999.0709252010130.3976@nqvgln> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070925115755.GM13370@obiit.org>
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, frantisek holop wrote:
> hmm, on Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 07:52:00PM -0400, Aditya Mahajan said that
>> Tabulate started as a mechanism to replace table, so the syntax was
>> kept the same. Right now, tabulate does not implement vertical rules,
>> so in the context of tabulate, having a last \NC seems redundant. As
>> far as I understand, tabulate is supposed to ultimately backward
>> compatible with table, and features will be added according to user
>> demands or Hans needs.
>
> thanks for the great explanation.
>
> anybody writing a context book by a chance for publishing? :D
I think that the book has been in the planning stage for a long time.
The trouble with writing a book is that it takes a long time. I have
started a series of articles in Tugboat on context, so I shall have
enough material for a book in ... eh ... about 5 years :)
Aditya
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-26 0:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-24 22:41 frantisek holop
2007-09-24 23:52 ` Aditya Mahajan
2007-09-25 11:57 ` frantisek holop
2007-09-26 0:11 ` Aditya Mahajan [this message]
2007-09-26 1:08 ` Idris Samawi Hamid
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