Re: [NTG-context] Columnspan in tabulate

9 Sep 2008

      On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 12:01 PM, Wolfgang Schuster
 wrote:
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On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 11:50 AM, Hans Hagen  wrote:
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Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
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Hi,
is it possible to support columnspan in tabulate.
\def\tabulateuse#1%
  {\dorecurse{\numexpr2*#1-1\relax}{\span}}
\setuptabulate[inner=\let\use\tabulateuse\defineTABLEshorthands]
\starttext
\starttable[|l|l|l|l|]
\NC a \NC b \NC c \NC d \AR
\NC 1 \NC \TWO 2  \NC 4 \AR
\stoptable
\starttabulate[|l|Bl|l|l|]
\NC a \NC b \NC c \NC d \NR
\NC 1 \NC 2 \TWO  \NC 4 \NR
\stoptabulate
\stoptext
them more something like ...
\def\tabulateuse#1{\dorecurse{\numexpr2*#1-1\relax}{\span\omit}}
\appendtoks
    \let\use\tabulateuse
    \defineTABLEshorthands
\to \everytabulate
\starttext
\starttabulate[|l|Br|l|l|]
\NC a \NC b \NC c \NC d \NR
\NC 1 \NC 2 \TWO  \NC 4 \NR
\stoptabulate
i have no problem with adding such a feature, but you have to write down
a 'limited use' entry in the wiki then since it will not work with p entries
No problem for me, I need it only in single row entries.
Could we say I never wrote this, I saw yesterday I need p columns in my tables
and the current tabulause command did not work but the following solution did
what I want.

\def\tabulateuse#1%
  {\dorecurse{\numexpr2*#1-1\relax}{\span\omit}\raggedright\ignorespaces}

\appendtoks
    \let\use\tabulateuse
    \defineTABLEshorthands
\to \everytabulate

\starttext

\starttabulate[|p(4cm)|p(4cm)|p(6cm)|]
\NC \dorecurse{10}{text } \NC \dorecurse{8}{text } \NC
\dorecurse{18}{text } \NC\NR
\NC \TWO Short text spanning two tabulate paragraphs. \NC
\dorecurse{22}{text } \NC\NR
\stoptabulate

\stoptext

I have to set the width for each colum but I could now use p columns.

Wolfgang