Re: [NTG-context] Mapping TABLE to xtable (module "ntb-to-xtb") doesn't recognize "c" option for columns

20 Feb 2019

      Hello,

On Tue, 19 Feb 2019 21:35:41 +0100, Wolfgang Schuster  wrote:
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Procházka Lukáš Ing. schrieb am 19.02.19 um 21:27:
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Hello,
it seems that xtable setup doesn't recognize the "c" option, which is
recognized successfully by TABLE setup;
tested on mapping provided by "ntb-to-xtb" module:
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\usemodule[ntb-to-xtb] \restoreTABLEfromxtable
\starttext
  \bTABLE
    \setupTABLE[c][1][width=1in] % Set 1st column width - OK with TABLE
    \bTR
      \bTD A
      \eTD
    \eTR
  \eTABLE
\bgroup
    \mapTABLEtoxtable
    \bTABLE
      \setupTABLE[c][1][width=1in] % <- This line causes error - not
recognized by xtable setup
xtables don’t support row/column settings like natural table and the
mapping doesn’t change this.
Wolfgang
as column setup for TABLEs by "\setupTABLE[c][1][width=1in]" is handy and is used frequently, would it be possible to provide identical mechanism for xtables?

 From what I read in the manual, setting width of a column for xtable is provided by \startxcell[width=...] at the place of the first cell-in-that-column usage.

Moreover, when xtable is built in two passes, in the first pass it might take a column (width) specification(s), if provided, and keep on reading xcell specification(s), considering xcell width, if provided.

I guess to be handy to implement both \setupTABLE[c][...] and \setupxtable[c][...] in a similar way, especially when there is a simple mechanism which allows TABLE/xtable switching (ntb-to-xtb module).

Best regards,

Lukas

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