Le 27 nov. 2021 à 13:25, Denis Maier via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl> a écrit :

Hi,

 

I’m using tabulate for parallel texts (source and translation next to each other). The top of each table should consist of only one cell covering both columns with centered content. Is that possible?

 

A HTML equivalent will look roughly like this:

 

<table>

  <tr>

    <th colspan="2">Manuscript XY </th>

  </tr>

  <tr>

    <td>Some text in Greek or Hebrew or whatever</td>

    <td>This is the translation</td>

  </tr>

</table>

 

With ConteXt I’d like to do something like this

 

\starttabulate[|p(1.2cm)|p(1.2cm)|]

  \NC Manuscript XY \NR

  \NC  Some text in Greek or Hebrew or whatever

  \NC  This is the translation \NC \NR                                             

\stoptabulate

 

This compiles (interestingly?), but the cells at the top aren’t merged.

 

Any ideas ?

 

I know that natural tables offer more in this regard, but those seem not to be so well suited for parallel texts.

I switched to natural tables a long time ago and that's how I would do it:

\starttext

\bTABLE[width=8cm, frame=off]

\setupTABLE[c][1][roffset=0.5em]

\setupTABLE[c][2][loffset=0.5em]

\bTR

\bTD[nc=2, align=center, bottomframe=on] Manuscript XY \eTD

\eTR\bTR

\bTD

Some text in Greek or Hebrew or whatever.

The text can comprise multiple paragraphs.

Or even lists and other goodies :

\startitemize[intro, packed]

\item first item

\item second item

\stopitemize

\eTD\bTD

This is the translation

\eTD

\eTR

\eTABLE

\stoptext

 

I haven't seen drawbacks with parallel texts (yet) and I found natural tables very flexible.

Hope it helps,