Re: [NTG-context] 2NUP, spreading a table on 2 pages

20 Jan 2009

      Antoine Junod  writes:
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Hi,
Wolfgang Schuster  writes:
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Am 20.01.2009 um 09:20 schrieb Antoine Junod:
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Hello List,
I'm trying to design a little booklet on the form two A5 pages on a A4
sheet. It's not hard to do as it is well documented.
The problem is the following: I would like to add a table (actually a
people list with firstname, lastname, mobile, address and so on and so
on) that is quite wide. The idea is to put it on a double page (ie,
when you open the booklet, the table is on both the left and the right
page).
The easy way would be to 1) manually cut the table in two tables (a
left one and a right one) that fit on a page and 2) to put them each
on their own page, beeing sure the left one is on a left page. Here,
the difficulty is to align both tables accross the pages.
How about linetables?
\setuplinetable[nx=2,width=.125\textwidth]
\starttext
\startlinetable
\NC firstname \NC lastname \NC phone       \NC mobile      \NC postal
code \NC city    \NC address        \NC\NR
\NC John      \NC Jonhsons \NC 0800/987654 \NC 0171/123456 \NC  12345
\NC New TeX \NC Meta street 12 \NC\NR
\stoplinetable
\stoptext
Excellent, thanks Wolfgang. It exactly matches my needs :)
In fact my reply was a bit fast: in the example below the table is
split on pages 2 and 3. But the lines of the table are not
aligned. I'll dig the sources too see if it's possible to do that. But
if anyone has a solution, I'm interested :)

Thanks for your help,
-AJ

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Page setup
% Use A5 pages on A4 paper
\setuppapersize[A5][A4]

% Arrange the A5 pages such that there are two of them on each A4
% sheet. They are arranged such that they can be send to the printer
% set to print on both pages, flipping on the long edge.
\setuparranging[2UP,rotated,doublesided]

% The layout of the page
\setuplayout[margin=1cm,width=middle,height=middle,topspace=0cm,backspace=1.2cm]

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Colors
% Enable the use of colors for the whole document
\setupcolors[state=start]

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Debug
% Display the layout borders
\showframe

% Display the grid
\showgrid

% Display the current layout setup value
%\showsetups

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Font
% Accept accents by default as input, like é, à and others.
\enableregime[utf]

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Beginning of the document
\starttext

\section{Le mot du président}
\dorecurse{2}{\input tufte \par}

\section{Les comptes}

\section{Les récits}
\subsection{La dora}
\subsection{Mon premier match de polo}
\subsection{La piscine}

\section{List des membres}
% magic
\setuplinetable[nx=2,width=.125\textwidth]
\startlinetable
\NC firstname \NC lastname \NC phone       \NC mobile      \NC postal
code \NC city    \NC address        \NC\NR
\NC John      \NC Jonhsons \NC 0800/987654 \NC 0171/123456 \NC  12345
\NC New TeX \NC Meta street 12 \NC\NR
\stoplinetable

\stoptext