On 2009-12-05, at 7:55 AM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
Am 04.12.2009 um 22:58 schrieb Design Department:
Earlier this year I attempted to set tabular material using ConTeXt while meeting *all* the following requirements:
Some columns need fixed width, content must wrap to multiple lines Multi-page tables Column headings must repeat on every page Additional header information is required on every page Additional footer information containing tabular text and graphics is required on every page Forced page breaks on arbitrary selected rows Horizontal rules between specified groups of rows
I was unable to meet all these requirements and reverted to LaTeX. It works, but I prefer ConTeXt and the LaTeX version takes a painfully long time to converge on optimal column widths. I'm now using TeXLive 2009, rather than 2008 - has anything changed in ConTeXt that will meet these requirements?
Can you show a example from the LaTeX output.
For Walfgang, and anyone else who has thoughts, here's a sample PDF. http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B3ld3P7qGRnwOTRmOWJhYTEtMGQ1Yy00ZGE4LTk0NmQtYzk3NmJlYWIzM2Zh&hl=en The main point is that the tabular material runs from just a single to several hundred rows and each page *must* contain both the header and footer explanations associated with the table. Normally the pages are broken at a fixed increment of rows depending on the type of data, usually 20 or 32 per page, but other values are possible. For good measure, field technicians often want a forced page break at an arbitrary row position. Two of the table columns contain data which may wrap to multiple lines, as illustrated. Is all this possible without writing a new tabular macro? I could get close, but couldn't get the table footer repeating on every page or the forced page breaks. That was using the TeXLive 2008 distribution. david