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From: Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>
To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" <ntg-context@ntg.nl>,
	"Procházka Lukáš Ing." <LPr@pontex.cz>
Subject: Re: Mapping TABLE to xtable (module "ntb-to-xtb") doesn't recognize "c" option for columns
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2019 09:15:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d032a1c2-9278-f6b6-8d71-b5c1996ff3a5@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <op.zxh3g1fz3h68c7@lpr>

On 2/20/2019 9:06 AM, Procházka Lukáš Ing. wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Tue, 19 Feb 2019 21:35:41 +0100, Wolfgang Schuster 
> <wolfgang.schuster.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>
>>
>> Procházka Lukáš Ing. schrieb am 19.02.19 um 21:27:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> it seems that xtable setup doesn't recognize the "c" option, which is
>>> recognized successfully by TABLE setup;
>>> tested on mapping provided by "ntb-to-xtb" module:
>>>
>>> ----
>>> \usemodule[ntb-to-xtb] \restoreTABLEfromxtable
>>>
>>> \starttext
>>>   \bTABLE
>>>     \setupTABLE[c][1][width=1in] % Set 1st column width - OK with TABLE
>>>     \bTR
>>>       \bTD A
>>>       \eTD
>>>     \eTR
>>>   \eTABLE
>>>
>>>   \bgroup
>>>     \mapTABLEtoxtable
>>>     \bTABLE
>>>       \setupTABLE[c][1][width=1in] % <- This line causes error - not
>>> recognized by xtable setup
>>
>> xtables don’t support row/column settings like natural table and the
>> mapping doesn’t change this.
>>
>> Wolfgang
> 
> as column setup for TABLEs by "\setupTABLE[c][1][width=1in]" is handy 
> and is used frequently, would it be possible to provide identical 
> mechanism for xtables?

all is popssible but it won't happen ... different approach ... you can 
use named setups here

>  From what I read in the manual, setting width of a column for xtable is 
> provided by \startxcell[width=...] at the place of the first 
> cell-in-that-column usage.
> 
> Moreover, when xtable is built in two passes, in the first pass it might 
> take a column (width) specification(s), if provided, and keep on reading 
> xcell specification(s), considering xcell width, if provided.

it already does ... even more than two passes

> I guess to be handy to implement both \setupTABLE[c][...] and 
> \setupxtable[c][...] in a similar way, especially when there is a simple 
> mechanism which allows TABLE/xtable switching (ntb-to-xtb module).

it would also be pretty inefficient

Hans

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-02-20  8:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-19 20:27 Procházka Lukáš Ing.
2019-02-19 20:35 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2019-02-20  8:06   ` Procházka Lukáš Ing.
2019-02-20  8:15     ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2019-02-20  9:51       ` Procházka Lukáš Ing.
2019-02-20 10:10         ` Hans Hagen

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