From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: starttabulate vs starttable
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 22:55:12 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.WNT.0.9999.0710042249060.4012@nqvgln> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071004223232.GB24077@obiit.org>
On Fri, 5 Oct 2007, frantisek holop wrote:
> hi there,
>
> please consider the following minimal examples:
>
> \starttext
> \starttable[|l|l|l|]
> \NC MidE \VL early ModE \VL ModE \NC \SR \HL
> \NC ge:s \VL gi:s \VL geese \NC \FR
> \NC na:m \VL ne:minimal \VL name \NC \MR
> \NC mi:s \VL mays \VL mice \NC \LR
> \stoptable
>
> \starttabulate[|l|l|l|]
> \NC MidE \NC early ModE \NC ModE \NC \NR \HL
> \NC ge:s \NC gi:s \NC geese \NC \NR
> \NC na:m \NC ne:minimal \NC name \NC \NR
> \NC mi:s \NC mays \NC mice \NC \NR
> \stoptabulate
> \stoptext
>
> the tabulate example is basicly the same without
> the vertical lines, which it seems like it can't do,
> i get an ! Undefined control sequence.
Right now, tabulate does not support vertical lines. It is a nice
feature to have. I know that the style guide says that one should not
use vertical rules, but I feel that there I cases when I need them.
> but \HL seems to work (and \VL not).
> tabulate is very lightly documented so i am not sure
> which table command works there and which not.
>
> i'd like to use tabulate instead of table because
> of the spacing. i dont need to stretch the content
> like table does. this is a small inline "table"
> between 2 paragpraphs, tabulate seems more elegant
> to me here.
Actually, table also works for this kind of thing. The place where
tabulate is really needed is when you want automatic width for
paragraphs.
You can make table squeeze content vertically by saying
\setuptables[depth=0.3,height=0.6]
The default is height=0.8, depth=0.4. Play around with these values.
> Han,
> it would be nice if tabulate could handle VL,
> that would make tabulate even more useful.
+1.
Aditya
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-04 22:32 frantisek holop
2007-10-04 23:41 ` Arthur Reutenauer
2007-10-05 2:57 ` Aditya Mahajan
2007-10-05 2:55 ` Aditya Mahajan [this message]
2007-10-05 3:04 ` Aditya Mahajan
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