Re: Macros in \start-stopTABLE

["Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد" <ishamid@colostate.edu>]

On Sun, 16 Nov 2014 00:24:57 -0700, Pablo Rodriguez <oinos@gmx.es> wrote:

> On 11/16/2014 05:50 AM, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote:
>> Dear gang,
>>
>> In the following, the first table works and the second one does not:
>> [...]
>> What do I need to do to get this macro right here?
>
> Hi Idris,
>
> I don’t know how you could make it work with TABLE, but your macro seems
> to work with xtables:
>
>     \setupbodyfont[tt]
>     \definefont[ALM][file:almfixed.otf*arabic at 12pt]
>     \setupdirections[bidi=global]
>
>     \define\NCD{\stopxcell\startxcell\righttoleft}
>
>     \setupxtable[width=1in]
>
>     \starttext
>     \ALM
>     \placetable[right,none]{}
>     {\startxtable
>         \startxrow
>             \startxcell Text 2 \NCD النص 2 \stopxcell
>          \stopxrow
>     \stopxtable}
>     \stoptext
>
> Just in case it helps,

Very helpful, I'm switching to xtables. I hope we can get bidi-paragraph  
options for the cell commands built into the core so we needn't write out  
\righttoleft etc.... e.g.

\start-stopxcellR, \start-stopxcellL

Thanks a lot and

Best wishes
Idris
-- 
Idris Samawi Hamid
Professor of Philosophy
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523
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