On 9/8/2013 2:17 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
Am 08.09.2013 um 02:33 schrieb hwitloc@gmail.com:
Thanks for the explanation. Providing the mapping feature with \mapTABLEtoxtabl and \restoreTABLEfromxtable was a very good choice.
Cheers
Hans Hagen wrote:
On 9/7/2013 3:31 AM, hwitloc@gmail.com wrote:
I just noticed the YATM, "yet another table method", built in ConTEXt, called "extreme tables", which is said to be a variant of the natural table mechanism.
Is extreme-tables a superset of natural-tables functionality?
Is the future in extreme-tables and will natural-tables eventually take a back seat and then fade away, being surpassed in development, features and usage?
- the natural tables will stay (but frozen - you can overload them: \mapTABLEtoxtabl \restoreTABLEfromxtable - xtreme tables have more protential for extensions without sacrificing speed - xtreme tables are faster but for normal use both suit
Do you plan to add something equivalent to \setupTABLE[<row>][<column>][<settings>] because xtables lack the function to set values for certain rows/columns.
in TABLE that is both flexible and a slow-downer but in xtreme table we have named cells, rows, cellgroups, rowgroups (also a bit better abstraction and fits nicely in the setup handler; in TABLE is boils down to storing the setup and reparsing) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------