Re: [NTG-context] next beta (tabulate)

On 3/20/2013 8:24 AM, Alan BRASLAU wrote:

On Tue, 19 Mar 2013 23:46:35 +0100 Sietse Brouwer wrote:

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[1] http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Tabulate

There is \starttabulate and \starttable. I understand that they use different mechanisms, even though their syntax are parallel. The wiki page [1] warns against the use of macros in tabulate, but this seems a bit obscure. Also, Tables_Overview recommends tabulate for simple tables and flags both table and tables as depreciated. I hesitate to add this information at the top of the wiki pages: Tabulate, Table and Tables as I am not clear about the status of these three mechanisms...

The obscurity comes from the fact that a tabulate is typeset multipass so macro definitions might have changed between first and last columns / rows. This is probably less of an issu ein mkiv.

One question: is it possible to span columns using tabulate as in table: \Use{n}[format]{data}?

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