Re: [NTG-context] Simplified input for natural tables

8 Mar 2009

      On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Hans Hagen  wrote:
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Aditya Mahajan wrote:
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On Sun, 8 Mar 2009, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
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Hi Hans,
natural tables are perfect to create tables with a fixed size for the
cells but the syntax requires sometimes a lot of typing for small content and
takes to many lines of code in the document.
less code and more efficient too ... can you test this?
\def\startTABLE
 {\dosingleempty\dostartTABLE}
\def\dostartTABLE[#1]%
 {\bgroup
  \bTABLE[#1]%
  \let\NC\doTABLENC
  \let\NR\doTABLENR
  \let\bTR\relax
  \let\bTD\relax
  \let\bTH\relax
  \let\bTN\relax}
\def\stopTABLE
 {\eTABLE
  \egroup}
\newconditional\inTABLEnc
\unexpanded\def\doTABLENR
 {\eTR
  \setfalse\inTABLEnc}
\unexpanded\def\doTABLENC
 {\futurelet\next\dodoTABLENC}
\def\dodoTABLENC
 {\ifx\next\doTABLENR \else
    \expandafter\dododoTABLENC
  \fi}
\long\def\dododoTABLENC#1\NC
 {\ifconditional\inTABLEnc\else\settrue\inTABLEnc\parseTR[][]\fi
  \parseTD[][]#1\eTD\NC}
Can you change this to

\long\def\dododoTABLENC#1\NC
 {\ifconditional\inTABLEnc\else\settrue\inTABLEnc\parseTR[][]\fi
  \dodoubleempty\parseTD#1\eTD\NC}

I want to be able to give argument with \NC too, it's important for me
to be able to use spanned columns/rows in the simple form.

Wolfgang