Re: [NTG-context] latest beta, problem with natural tables and alignment character

On 6/27/2014 8:04 PM, Brian Landy wrote:

On Jun 26, 2014, at 5:24 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:

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On 6/26/2014 10:48 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:

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On 6/26/2014 5:06 AM, Brian Landy wrote:

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On Jun 25, 2014, at 6:53 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:

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On 6/25/2014 11:26 PM, Brian R. Landy wrote:

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When you say "next beta" do you mean a subsequent minimals release (i.e., this fix should be the 2014.06.22 release)? Or do you mean a new beta that you announce more formally on the list? I'm not sure what I should look for before I test again, so I don't end up testing a version without the fix.

netx beta == next upload == already done

Great, thanks. I wanted to make sure before mentioning I'm still seeing problems. When you have a combination number/character sequence (i.e., 1D or 11-22+) and specify an alignment (flushleft/middle/flushright) spaces get inserted between the final digit and the first trailing character. So "1D" might print as "1 D", "11-22+" prints as "11-22 +", etc. This happens using "." or "," for alignment, it's not exclusive to aligning on a hyphen.

i now have two methods, number and text and {-} triggers text

you can force a method with text-> and number->

no upload yet

I'll also add \nocharacteralign so that one can disable this mechanism in a table cell.

This is all great, thank's so much for handling this so quickly! I like the idea of keeping the old behavior as an alternative.

in fact, the old behaviour is the default for number related seperators but in your case the - so not a number separator so then it assumes text

And now that I see what your new mode is attempting to accomplish, I think it will prove very useful. It looks like you want to parse out the number from any preceding and following text, align the number on the alignment character, and pad out any text that precedes a number (like a currency symbol) to align on the left rather than be flush with the number. I just wanted to point out that this only works if identical preceding and/or trailing text exists in every cell.

indeed, this mechanism was meant for numbers

For example, this table doesn't align using flushleft, middle, or flushright (it will if you force text->{.}, but of course the parens won't align vertically):

\starttext \bgroup< \setupTABLE[1,2][3,4,5,6][aligncharacter=yes,alignmentcharacter={.}] \bTABLE[align={flushright}] \bTR \bTD xxxxxxxx \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD xxxxx \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD 1.2 \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD (1.2) \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD 11.22 \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD (11.22) \eTD \eTR \eTABLE \egroup \stoptext

Without having looked through the code, I wonder if in number mode you could first run the existing logic, and then finish off using the existing text logic to pad the outside (i.e., to the left of the left-hand text and to the right of the right-hand text)?

not today ... things take time

Anyway, for my purposes restoring the old mode as an option is perfect, I just wanted to mention this in case this wasn't the behavior you intended.

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