Aditya Mahajan wrote:
On Sun, 8 Mar 2009, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
Hi Hans,
natural tables are perfect to create tables with a fixed size for the cells but the syntax requires sometimes a lot of typing for small content and takes to many lines of code in the document.
less code and more efficient too ... can you test this? \def\startTABLE {\dosingleempty\dostartTABLE} \def\dostartTABLE[#1]% {\bgroup \bTABLE[#1]% \let\NC\doTABLENC \let\NR\doTABLENR \let\bTR\relax \let\bTD\relax \let\bTH\relax \let\bTN\relax} \def\stopTABLE {\eTABLE \egroup} \newconditional\inTABLEnc \unexpanded\def\doTABLENR {\eTR \setfalse\inTABLEnc} \unexpanded\def\doTABLENC {\futurelet\next\dodoTABLENC} \def\dodoTABLENC {\ifx\next\doTABLENR \else \expandafter\dododoTABLENC \fi} \long\def\dododoTABLENC#1\NC {\ifconditional\inTABLEnc\else\settrue\inTABLEnc\parseTR[][]\fi \parseTD[][]#1\eTD\NC} watch the relaxing of the b commands, so that we catch mixed usage Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------