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2007/11/6, Peter Rolf
Hi Wolfgang,
what a nice 'minimal' example :)
I'm no table expert, not even an experienced table user. Anyhow, I think that table is the best choice here. Aside from the bad placing of the horizontal rules, all is working. This is much more than you can say from the other candidates.
How about defining your own horizontal rules instead of using the default \HL ones? See definition of \TableHL and alike in core-tab.tex. You can define special horizontal lines for all three occurrences, so spacing should not be a problem.
Donno if this works out of the box (if table accepts such stuff in head and tail). All untested, as I don't have much time.
try (ugly and old code, works between normal table lines)
\def\betweentable#1{\TABLEnoalign{\nointerlineskip#1\nointerlineskip}}
\TB[small,medium,...] for vertical spacing and \betweentable{...} for the line (MP line is always nice)
\TB[small] \betweentable{\hbox{~~~\reuseMPgraphic{EnglishRule}{color=dimgray,width= 81.3mm,height=2pt}}} \TB[medium]
CHANGE IT HERE <<<
\starttablehead \HL % <<< \NC Row 1 \NC Row 2 \NC Row 3 \NC\AR \HL % <<< \stoptablehead
\starttabletail \HL % <<< \stoptabletail
Hope that helps,
Peter
Hi Peter, your solution would be really a option but I hope the real bugs will be fixed, the big space above the footer line did only appear with the repeat option for split. \starttext \startbuffer \starttablehead \HL \NC Head 1 \NC Head 2 \NC\AR \HL \stoptablehead \starttabletail \HL \stoptabletail \starttable[|||] \NC Text \NC Text \NC\AR \NC Text \NC Text \NC\AR \NC Text \NC Text \NC\AR \NC Text \NC Text \NC\AR \stoptable \stopbuffer %\tracetablestrue \setuptables[split=no] \getbuffer \setuptables[split=yes] \getbuffer \setuptables[split=repeat] \getbuffer \stoptext The wrong spaces after the header and before the footer in the other examples are a result of the macro expansion and need also to be solved, because it is not possile to insert the right nexrow command (\FR and \LR) in the table input without looking at the final pagebreaks. This should be possible with a few extra signals after the header and every line and by inserting linecorrection when the header, footer and tablebody are combined. Wolfgang