On Sun, 18 Dec 2016, Csikos Bela wrote:
Dear context users:
In latex I could make professional looking tables using booktabs module. Using longtable package I could make nice looking multipage tables.
I see that context offers several table environments. Which one of them is suitable for making professional (publication quality) tables?
The requirements for such tables are the follows:
- Only horizontal rules are needed - Ability to set the rule's thickness for top rule, bottom rule, middle rule - Ability to set the distance between rules and table content - Ability to set rule length shorter than cell or row width on both left and right sides - Ability to set rules for spanning only some of the columns
Natural tables can give the same visual output as booktabs but the only way to shorten rules is to either use a "fake" column as spacer or use metapost to draw borders. For simple tables, you could get around this by being a little creative. For example, here is the example from the booktabs package with very little manual tweaking. \startsetups booktabs \setupTABLE[frame=off, rulethickness=0.5bp, loffset=1em] \setupTABLE[column][first][loffset=0em] \setupTABLE[row][first][topframe=on, rulethickness=1.5bp] \setupTABLE[row][last] [bottomframe=on, rulethickness=1bp] \stopsetups \starttext \bTABLE[setups=booktabs] \setupTABLE[column][3][align=flushright] \bTR[topframe=on] \bTD[nc=2, align=middle] Item \eTD \bTD \eTD \eTR \bTR[bottomframe=on] \bTD[topframe=on] Animal \eTD \bTD[topframe=on] Description \eTD \bTD Price (\$) \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD Gnat \eTD \bTD per gram \eTD \bTD 13.65 \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD \eTD \bTD each \eTD \bTD 0.01 \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD Gnu \eTD \bTD stuffed \eTD \bTD 92.50 \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD Emu \eTD \bTD stuffed \eTD \bTD 33.33 \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD Armadillo \eTD \bTD frozen \eTD \bTD 8.99 \eTD \eTR \eTABLE \stoptext Aditya