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You're right, the manual says what you pasted.
I agree that it is logical and makes sense, but the actual program does not
do it. My version is: "mtx-context
I was using: version: 2017.08.29 19:35
I updated to: version: 2018.01.05 19:26
Reality does not match the manual page you quated.
I recommend that you test before you send out manual pages which are not accurate with the actual processing.
Regards
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Alan Braslau
According to i-context.pdf ($CONTEXTHOME/tex/context/interface/mkiv)
1 2 \startxcell [...] [..,..=..,..] ... \stopxcell OPT OPT 1 NAME 2 nx=NUMBER ny=NUMBER nc=NUMBER nr=NUMBER inherits: \setupxtable
On Fri, 05 Jan 2018 15:50:51 -0800 "jdh"
wrote: No it wont compile with two groups. It takes the second as content. It may be a version difference. But it likewise would not work as is for me with puting the key=value into the 1st bracket pair.
Version parsing difference?
Alan Braslau
wrote: No, in ConTeXt one NEVER, EVER mixes key=value lists with simple keywords (parsing would otherwise be very less efficient).
The feature to be able to declare a "namespace" (such as the one called "suffix") having particular values of its parameters is really powerful. Think of it as "xtable:suffix" that inherits from the namespace "xtable" but then lives a life of its own...
\startxcell takes and optional namespace specification, i.e. [suffix] and an optional key=value list of parameters, i.e. [ny=2,...]. These parameters override locally the values that are otherwise carried by the namespace.
ConTeXt gurus: I hope that I have gotten this explanation right.
Alan
On Fri, 5 Jan 2018 17:12:40 +0100 Floris van Manen
wrote: apparently
\startxcell[suffix][ny=2] cell a 1 \stopxcell
should be
\startxcell[suffix, ny=2] cell a 1 \stopxcell
On 5 Jan 2018, at 14:32, Hans Hagen
wrote: On 1/5/2018 4:57 AM, Henri wrote:
Dear list, The Natural Tables have this great feature that I can control the layout with rowwise, columnwise, or cellwise setups. For example: \starttext \setupTABLE [frame=off] \setupTABLE [r] [first] [topframe=on,bottomframe=on,style=bold] \setupTABLE [c] [2] [style=italic] \setupTABLE [2] [3] [color=red] \setupTABLE [r] [last] [bottomframe=on] \startTABLE \NC A \NC A \NC A \NC\NR \NC B \NC B \NC B \NC\NR \NC C \NC C \NC C \NC\NR \NC D \NC D \NC D \NC\NR \NC E \NC E \NC E \NC\NR \stopTABLE \stoptext
it's also an extremely inefficient method
How can I do such a thing with Extreme Tables? If it is not yet possible I'd like to request the inclusion of such a mechanism. from the manual, named setups:
\setupxtable[suffix][align=middle,foregroundcolor=red] \setupxtable[blabla][foregroundstyle=slanted] \setupxtable[crap] [foregroundcolor=blue] \setupxtable[bold] [crap][foregroundstyle=bold]
\startxtable % [frame=off] \startxtablehead \startxrow[bold] \startxcell[suffix] head a \stopxcell \startxcell[blabla] head b \stopxcell \startxcell head c \stopxcell \stopxrow \stopxtablehead \startxtablebody \startxrow \startxcell[suffix][ny=2] cell a 1 \stopxcell \startxcell cell b 1 \stopxcell \startxcell cell c 1 \stopxcell \stopxrow \startxrow \startxcell cell b 2 \stopxcell \startxcell cell c 2 \stopxcell \stopxrow \startxrow \startxcell[suffix] cell a 3 \stopxcell \startxcell cell b 3 \stopxcell \startxcell cell c 3 \stopxcell \stopxrow \startxrow \startxcell[suffix] cell a 4 \stopxcell \startxcell cell b 4 \stopxcell \startxcell cell c 4 \stopxcell \stopxrow \startxrow \startxcell[suffix] cell a 5 \stopxcell \startxcell cell b 5 \stopxcell \startxcell cell c 5 \stopxcell \stopxrow \stopxtablebody \stopxtable
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