From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/36895 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Aditya Mahajan Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: starttabulate vs starttable Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 22:55:12 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: <20071004223232.GB24077@obiit.org> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1191552998 14712 80.91.229.12 (5 Oct 2007 02:56:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 02:56:38 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Oct 05 04:56:34 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IddMf-00053z-ON for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Oct 2007 04:56:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDBB71FCDB; Fri, 5 Oct 2007 04:56:28 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 06224-01; Fri, 5 Oct 2007 04:55:44 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A72291FCA3; Fri, 5 Oct 2007 04:55:36 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A352C1FCA3 for ; Fri, 5 Oct 2007 04:55:33 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 05123-09-4 for ; Fri, 5 Oct 2007 04:55:17 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from hellskitchen.mr.itd.umich.edu (smtp.mail.umich.edu [141.211.14.82]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 253B51FCA0 for ; Fri, 5 Oct 2007 04:55:15 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: FROM aditya.annarb01.mi.comcast.net (adsl-68-79-103-226.dsl.sfldmi.ameritech.net [68.79.103.226]) BY hellskitchen.mr.itd.umich.edu ID 4705A791.3BE84.14553 ; 4 Oct 2007 22:55:13 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20071004223232.GB24077@obiit.org> X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 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 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:36895 Archived-At: 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________