At 10:58 AM 2/7/2003 +0000, Adam Lindsay wrote:
Hmm, that's something else I haven't quite understood--the pros and cons of the three TABLE mechanisms. I've only bothered to learn \bTABLE, because it's closest to the HTML tables I already knew well, and because it was advertised as being the most powerful.
Could someone who knows more than I do give a brief summary of why I would want either of the two other table mechanisms over the newest TABLE?
\starttable : fast, some limitations (less spanning), based on patched TaBlE \starttabulate : reasonable fast, no vertical lines, auto-width par's, split across pages \bTABLE : flexible, automatic, slow, no templates so, for paragraph based tables i use tabulate, for fancy stuff i use bTABLE, otherwise i use table
(btw, some next release will have an example interface to letters and an associated database)
Hans, is this the same release that will include the "splitting tables over multiple pages" feature you've mentioned?
ah, that's mechanism number 4; already in there but undocumented -) Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------