Re: [NTG-context] Simplified input for natural tables

8 Mar 2009


      John Devereux wrote:
...
Hans Hagen  writes:
[...]
Hi Hans,
Is there any possible way to use the wiki-style tables like:
^ Heading 1 ^ Heading 2 ^
| Item 1    | Item 2 |
| Item 3    | Item 4 |
(Probably with some wrapper)
Perhaps this boils down to asking if it is possible to (re)define
"special" characters, within a region of text.
doing that in the running text is asking for troubles (catcode mess)

if there is real interest in that kind of stuff we can make a module 
that does something

\starttext

\startluacode
function commands.wiki_to_table(str) -- wrong namespace
     str = string.gsub(str,"%^ *[\n\r]","\\NC\\NR\n")
     str = string.gsub(str,"%^","\\NC ")
     str = string.gsub(str,"| *[\n\r]","\\NC\\NR\n")
     str = string.gsub(str,"|","\\NC ")
     tex.sprint(tex.ctxcatcodes,"\\startTABLE")
     tex.sprint(tex.ctxcatcodes,str)
     tex.sprint(tex.ctxcatcodes,"\\stopTABLE")
end
\stopluacode

\def\startwikitable
   {\bgroup
    \obeylines
    \dostartwikitable}

\long\def\dostartwikitable#1\stopwikitable
   {\ctxlua{commands.wiki_to_table([[\detokenize{#1}]])}%
    \egroup}

\startwikitable
^ Heading 1 ^ Heading 2 ^
| Item 1    | Item 2 |
| Item 3    | Item 4 |
\stopwikitable

\startTABLE
\NC Text 1 \NC Text 2 \NC \NR
\NC Text 3 \NC Text 4 \NC \NR
\stopTABLE

\stoptext


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