This is a short introduction to yet another table mechanism built in \CONTEXT. It is a variant of the so called natural tables but it has a different configuration. Also, the implementation is completely different. The reason for writing it is that in one of our projects we had to write styles for documents that had tables spanning 30 or more pages and apart from memory constraints this is quite a challenge for the other mechanisms, if only because splitting them into successive floats is not possible due to
Hi, I uploaded a new beta. The biggest new thing is that there is yet another table mechanism: extreme tables. There is a manual too: http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/xtables-mkiv.pdf It says in the introduction: limitations of \TEX. The extreme table mechanism can handle pretty large tables and split them too. As each cell is basically a \type {\framed} and as we need to do two passes over the table, this mechanism is not the fastest but it is some two times faster than the natural tables mechanism, and in most cases can be used instead. << There will probably a few additions but it's already pretty complete. 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------
On 10/28/11 16:24, Hans Hagen wrote:
I uploaded a new beta. The biggest new thing is that there is yet another table mechanism: extreme tables.
Extreme tables - be careful, leave yourself some room for the next iteration; you might run out of superlatives. What will be next: supermongous tables? monster tables? awesome tables? :-) I just had a look at the manual, and this looks very very nice - clean syntax, and might be easier to map from xml than the other models. Thanks Hans, I'm looking forward to playing with those! Thomas
On 28-10-2011 16:46, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
On 10/28/11 16:24, Hans Hagen wrote:
I uploaded a new beta. The biggest new thing is that there is yet another table mechanism: extreme tables.
Extreme tables - be careful, leave yourself some room for the next iteration; you might run out of superlatives. What will be next: supermongous tables? monster tables? awesome tables? :-)
Well, I needed a temporary name for the commands so I ended up with \startxtable and didn't want to change the namespace and macro names etc so the x became eXtreme. A next table mechanism will use a different character so then I have to make up something, like \startwtable which will then become 'weird tables' or so. Maybe I'll make you a \starttabularasa ... \stoptabularasa ... the ultimate minimalistic table mechanism, implemented as ... \unexpanded\def\starttabularasa#1\stoptabularasa{} \let\stoptabularasa\relax ... which is then also the smallest module. Concerning the xml ... I'll probably redo cals tables in this mechanism and maybe even provide a bTABLE -> xtable mapping (btu I'm not sure about that one). 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Hans Hagen
On 28-10-2011 16:46, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
On 10/28/11 16:24, Hans Hagen wrote:
I uploaded a new beta. The biggest new thing is that there is yet another table mechanism: extreme tables.
Extreme tables - be careful, leave yourself some room for the next iteration; you might run out of superlatives. What will be next: supermongous tables? monster tables? awesome tables? :-)
Well, I needed a temporary name for the commands so I ended up with \startxtable and didn't want to change the namespace and macro names etc so the x became eXtreme. A next table mechanism will use a different character so then I have to make up something, like \startwtable which will then become 'weird tables' or so. You can use context user names, i.e. \startwtable is Willi's table
ok, a dirty trick to promote the group. -- luigi
Dear Hans, Am Freitag, den 28.10.2011, 16:24 +0200 schrieb Hans Hagen:
I uploaded a new beta. The biggest new thing is that there is yet another table mechanism: extreme tables.
thank you for this new table.
There is a manual too:
I just wanted to note that displaying the PDF properties (in Evince using Alt + return) the title is just the file name and the author is set to unknown. Seeing that there is a colophon storing that metadata at the right place should not be a problem, I guess. […] Thanks, Paul
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 10:24, Hans Hagen
Hi,
I uploaded a new beta. The biggest new thing is that there is yet another table mechanism: extreme tables. There is a manual too:
It would help the navigation if the manual has a hyperlinked table-of-contents. For some reason it does not. --Leo--
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