Re: [NTG-context] Booktabs equivalent in Context

9 Aug 2007

      Aditya,

In the example you give with CMID you have only two column preambles
whereas the table has 3 columns and if one adds the missing preamble
then one gets an error. Some how your new code breaks the calculation
for number of columns.

-Hamid

On 8/8/07, Aditya Mahajan  wrote:
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Quoting Johannes Graumann :
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Aditya Mahajan wrote:
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Hi,
The question of how to get tables equivalent to latex's booktabs
package has been discussed quite a few times in the past. Booktabs
package provides (top|mid|bottom)rule commands and a cmidrule command.
The top and bottom rules are 0.08em thick, the midrule is 0.05em thick,
and the cmidrules are 0.03em thick. The cmidrules do not extend beyond
the columns edge. Here is an example of how to do something similar
using tables in context http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Table#Booktabs.
To me this looks exactly similar to the example in the booktabs manual.
Am I missing something, or is it fair to say that context can generate
booktabs like tables?
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Hello,
I'm one of the booktab-equivalent requesters and in my case the request is
motivated by the (sadly German-only)
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/german/tabsatz/tabsatz.pdf
Please compare examples on pages 4 and 5 for the cmidrule functionality I'm
missing in ConTeXt. The clarity you can give classy looking tables with
trimmed cmidrules is even more evident in the example on page 9. There's
lots of more use of this in the document, but it gets too esoteric to be
easily grasped quickly (IMHO).
Here is one attempt, which works correctly. Of course the best solution
is to forget about the \omit and set the halign preamble correctly. But
I have not been able to figure that out yet.
\starttext
\def\CMID{\normalTABLEshortrule}
\unprotect
\def\TableNC
  {\checkTABLEautorow
   \nextTABLEgrayline
   \ifnum\currentTABLEcolumn>\maxTABLEcolumn
     \setTABLEerror\TABLEmissingrow
     \handleTABLEerror
   \else
     \global\advance\currentTABLEcolumn \plusone
     \ifnum\currentTABLEcolumn=1\relax
       \normalTABLEquote
     \else
       \fancyTABLEquote
      \fi
   \fi}
\def\fancyTABLEquote      {\unskip\!ttRightGlue&\omit\hskip2em&} % "
\protect
\setuptables[rulethickness=0.03em]
\starttable[s0|l|l|]
  \HL[3]
  \NC Monat     \NC 1965  \NC 1966  \AR
  \NC \CMID     \NC \CMID \NC \CMID \DR
  \NC September \NC 2000  \NC 1700 \AR
  \HL[3]
\stoptable
\stoptext
Aditya
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Re: [NTG-context] Booktabs equivalent in Context

Hamid Kamrani