Re: [NTG-context] TABLE and row/column align settings

3 Oct 2012

      ... Thanks for the answer but -

- I generated a macro just do demonstrate different behavior in row #1 depending on whether settings for columns were specified for a PARTICULAR column ("\setupTABLE[column][2][...]") or for columns IN GENERAL ("\setupTABLE[column][][...]").

I need the case with a particular column settings to work:

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\starttext
   \bTABLE
     \setupTABLE[width=2cm]
     \setupTABLE[column][2][align=flushright]
     \setupTABLE[row][1][align=middle] % Settings for ALL columns in the row 1 should be overwritten; but are not (?!)
     \bTABLEhead[align=middle]
       \bTR
         \bTH[align=middle] a\eTH
         \bTH[align=middle] b\eTH
       \eTR
     \eTABLEhead
     \bTABLEbody
       \bTR
         \bTD a\eTD
         \bTD b\eTD
       \eTR
     \eTABLEbody
   \eTABLE
\stoptext
----

You can see that "\setupTABLE[row][1][align=middle]" doesn't affect column #2, which keeps its previously setting "\setupTABLE[column][2][align=flushright]"; this is unwanted.

I'd need "\setupTABLE[row][1][align=middle]" to overwrite the column #2 setting, so that all columns in the row #1 be mid-aligned.

Lukas

On Wed, 03 Oct 2012 10:53:39 +0200, Wolfgang Schuster  wrote:
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Am 03.10.2012 um 10:16 schrieb Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o. :
...
Hello,
I have a complicated TABLE, but I simplified it to the following example:
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\def\DoTable#1{%
 \bTABLE
   \setupTABLE[width=2cm]
   \setupTABLE[column][#1][align=flushright] % ....................................................... [1]
   \setupTABLE[row][1][align=middle] % Settings for ALL columns in the row 1 should be overwritten ... [2]
   \bTABLEhead
     \bTR
       \bTH a\eTH
       \bTH b\eTH
     \eTR
   \eTABLEhead
   \bTABLEbody
     \bTR
       \bTD a\eTD
       \bTD b\eTD
     \eTR
   \eTABLEbody
 \eTABLE
}
\starttext
 No column specification: \DoTable{}
With column specification: \DoTable{2}
\stoptext
----
The problem is that row #1 should be mid-aligned in all columns. So I wrote:
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   \setupTABLE[column][2][align=flushright] % Column #2 has its own alignment...
   \setupTABLE[row][1][align=middle] % ... but overwrite here for the whole row #1 (including column #2)
----
But column #2 keeps the previously assigned alignment.
The situation doesn't change even if I swap [1] and [2] (for the case "the earlier setting, the higher priority").
Moreover, if the column number if not specified (\DoTable{}), the row setting overwrites setting for ALL columns; so only if the column is specified precisely, its setting is kept.
So how to overwrite row #1 setting globally?
And how setting priorities are evaluated? I guessed the later specification, the higher weight (which would allow overwriting)...
Note that in the example it would be possible to specify settings for each row/column, but it not useful way in the case of more/very complicated tables.
\def\DoTable
  {\dosingleempty\DodoTable}
\def\DodoTable[#1]%
  {\bgroup
   \setupTABLE[width=2cm]%
   \doifsomething{#1}{\setupTABLE[column][#1][align=flushright]}%
   \setupTABLE[header][align=middle]%
   \bTABLE
     \bTABLEhead
       \bTR
         \bTH a\eTH
         \bTH b\eTH
       \eTR
     \eTABLEhead
     \bTABLEbody
       \bTR
         \bTD a\eTD
         \bTD b\eTD
       \eTR
     \eTABLEbody
   \eTABLE
   \egroup}
\starttext
No column specification: \DoTable
With column specification: \DoTable[2]
\stoptext
Wolfgang
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