From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/35778 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Johannes Graumann Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Booktabs equivalent in Context Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 14:03:23 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20070803171006.gn644njnhw88sggg@web.mail.umich.edu> 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 1186574763 10939 80.91.229.12 (8 Aug 2007 12:06:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 12:06:03 +0000 (UTC) To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Aug 08 14:06:01 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 1IIkHn-00044C-Qu for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Aug 2007 14:05:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58413200EB; Wed, 8 Aug 2007 14:05:11 +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 19252-03-34; Wed, 8 Aug 2007 14:05:07 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D1FE20181; Wed, 8 Aug 2007 14:04:48 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7831020111 for ; Wed, 8 Aug 2007 14:04:46 +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 19252-03-29 for ; Wed, 8 Aug 2007 14:04:40 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A14820193 for ; Wed, 8 Aug 2007 14:03:47 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1IIkGJ-0006US-7P for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Wed, 08 Aug 2007 14:03:39 +0200 Original-Received: from 141-61-79-153.biochem.mpg.de ([141.61.79.153]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 08 Aug 2007 14:03:39 +0200 Original-Received: from johannes_graumann by 141-61-79-153.biochem.mpg.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 08 Aug 2007 14:03:39 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 45 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 141-61-79-153.biochem.mpg.de User-Agent: KNode/0.10.5 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:35778 Archived-At: Hello, I'm one of the booktab-equivalent requesters and in my case the request is motivated by the (sadly German-only) http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/german/tabsatz/tabsatz.pdf Please compare examples on pages 4 and 5 for the cmidrule functionality I'm missing in ConTeXt. The clarity you can give classy looking tables with trimmed cmidrules is even more evident in the example on page 9. There's lots of more use of this in the document, but it gets too esoteric to be easily grasped quickly (IMHO). Joh Aditya Mahajan wrote: > Hi, > > The question of how to get tables equivalent to latex's booktabs > package has been discussed quite a few times in the past. Booktabs > package provides (top|mid|bottom)rule commands and a cmidrule command. > The top and bottom rules are 0.08em thick, the midrule is 0.05em thick, > and the cmidrules are 0.03em thick. The cmidrules do not extend beyond > the columns edge. Here is an example of how to do something similar > using tables in context . > > To me this looks exactly similar to the example in the booktabs manual. > Am I missing something, or is it fair to say that context can generate > booktabs like tables? > > Patrick, any commnets? > > 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 > ___________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________