Re: [NTG-context] table: code doesn't work any more with recent beta

On 10/2/06, John R. Culleton wrote:

On Monday 02 October 2006 13:07, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

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On Sun, 01 Oct 2006 22:42:03 +0100

Sanjoy Mahajan wrote:

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I'd seen a similar problem but didn't manage to catch it before it slithered away. But I'm pretty sure it used to work (perhaps with an August 06 release).

Worst case as an emergency fix you could pick up the table module from the texsis suite: TXSruled.tex. I use it all the time in plain tex and pdfetex. It will work in Context too. Here is a sample: \input TXSruled.tex ... \ruledtable VENDOR \cr John Culleton \hfill\crnorule Able Indexers and Typesetters\hfill\crnorule 2401 Haight Avenue\hfill\crnorule Eldersburg, MD 21784 \hfill \endruledtable

I find this style of coding less cumbersome than the one adopted for Context, with all the capitalizations etc.

I don't need a quick fix since I can still use the old version to compile that specific document - but it would be great if it would be fixed in the current beta as well. I also remember some other problems with tables being reported not so long ago (usage of \AR, \MR, \FR, \LR, ... causing problems in macros). But thanks for the hint. I'll take a look at TXSruled, I never heard about it before. (I hate the way tables are dealt with inside any flavour of TeX anyway.) Mojca