[NTG-context] natural table oddities

[This mail sat in my drafts folder for days; wanted to research more first, well…] Am 28.03.23 um 02:19 schrieb Bruce Horrocks:

If you're asking for comments with a view to making changes then...

I can’t make the changes myself, only suggest them to Hans.

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On 27 Mar 2023, at 15:03, Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context wrote:

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* If I format a column, e.g. \setupTABLE[c][-1][color=red], body and foot are formatted, but not the same column in header. I couldn’t find how to format columns in header.

If you disregard the Wiki page instructions to use \bTH...\eTH then you can format the header using: \bTD ... \eTD

but I'm not sure what the consequences might be, if any. You lose the default bold heading so maybe that's all /bTH.../eTH is adding?

Yes, I also found that out – either I sent an incomplete email, or I forgot to add my later “research”. 🤔 TH (table header, not Taco or Tomáš 😉) adds a separation between header and body cells, but setting up "header" affects both TD and TH within TABLEhead.

It would be nice to have a way of specifying the header explicitly. My suggestion would be to have: - \setupTABLE[r][head][...] affect just the header - \setupTABLE[r][next][...] affect the new page header - \setupTABLE[r][first|last|body][...] affect the first, or last, or only the body rows (i.e. not the header or footer) - \setupTABLE[r][foot][...] affect just the footer

[r][last] (and [r][-1]) would represent the last body row (but not the footer row if one has been requested).

I agree.

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## Formatting * maxwidth doesn’t seem to have an effect, neither on the whole table nor on a column. * textwidth works only for the whole table. * width gets stretched if option=stretch; i.e. I can’t fix the width of single cells or columns.

For me, \setupTABLE [c] [1] [width=3cm] fixes the width of column 1 and forces long text to wrap.

But the width of a column is not fixed if you set option=stretch, then *all* columns are stretched, not only the undefined. Hraban