starttabulate vs starttable
hi there, please consider the following minimal examples: \starttext \starttable[|l|l|l|] \NC MidE \VL early ModE \VL ModE \NC \SR \HL \NC ge:s \VL gi:s \VL geese \NC \FR \NC na:m \VL ne:minimal \VL name \NC \MR \NC mi:s \VL mays \VL mice \NC \LR \stoptable \starttabulate[|l|l|l|] \NC MidE \NC early ModE \NC ModE \NC \NR \HL \NC ge:s \NC gi:s \NC geese \NC \NR \NC na:m \NC ne:minimal \NC name \NC \NR \NC mi:s \NC mays \NC mice \NC \NR \stoptabulate \stoptext the tabulate example is basicly the same without the vertical lines, which it seems like it can't do, i get an ! Undefined control sequence. but \HL seems to work (and \VL not). tabulate is very lightly documented so i am not sure which table command works there and which not. i'd like to use tabulate instead of table because of the spacing. i dont need to stretch the content like table does. this is a small inline "table" between 2 paragpraphs, tabulate seems more elegant to me here. Han, it would be nice if tabulate could handle VL, that would make tabulate even more useful. pretty please :D -f -- what we do not understand we do not possess. -- goethe
the tabulate example is basicly the same without the vertical lines, which it seems like it can't do, i get an ! Undefined control sequence.
I really don't know much about tabular material in ConTeXt, but from the very first line of http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Tabulate I would assume that this is indeed a feature (no vertical lines in tabulate). Arthur
On Fri, 5 Oct 2007, Arthur Reutenauer wrote:
the tabulate example is basicly the same without the vertical lines, which it seems like it can't do, i get an ! Undefined control sequence.
I really don't know much about tabular material in ConTeXt, but from the very first line of http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Tabulate I would assume that this is indeed a feature (no vertical lines in tabulate).
Actually, core-tbl.tex says % \VL as soon as needed % color as soon as needed Aditya
On Fri, 5 Oct 2007, frantisek holop wrote:
hi there,
please consider the following minimal examples:
\starttext \starttable[|l|l|l|] \NC MidE \VL early ModE \VL ModE \NC \SR \HL \NC ge:s \VL gi:s \VL geese \NC \FR \NC na:m \VL ne:minimal \VL name \NC \MR \NC mi:s \VL mays \VL mice \NC \LR \stoptable
\starttabulate[|l|l|l|] \NC MidE \NC early ModE \NC ModE \NC \NR \HL \NC ge:s \NC gi:s \NC geese \NC \NR \NC na:m \NC ne:minimal \NC name \NC \NR \NC mi:s \NC mays \NC mice \NC \NR \stoptabulate \stoptext
the tabulate example is basicly the same without the vertical lines, which it seems like it can't do, i get an ! Undefined control sequence.
Right now, tabulate does not support vertical lines. It is a nice feature to have. I know that the style guide says that one should not use vertical rules, but I feel that there I cases when I need them.
but \HL seems to work (and \VL not). tabulate is very lightly documented so i am not sure which table command works there and which not.
i'd like to use tabulate instead of table because of the spacing. i dont need to stretch the content like table does. this is a small inline "table" between 2 paragpraphs, tabulate seems more elegant to me here.
Actually, table also works for this kind of thing. The place where tabulate is really needed is when you want automatic width for paragraphs. You can make table squeeze content vertically by saying \setuptables[depth=0.3,height=0.6] The default is height=0.8, depth=0.4. Play around with these values.
Han, it would be nice if tabulate could handle VL, that would make tabulate even more useful.
+1. Aditya
On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
On Fri, 5 Oct 2007, frantisek holop wrote:
i'd like to use tabulate instead of table because of the spacing. i dont need to stretch the content like table does.
Compare: \setuptables[depth=0.2,height=0.8] %\tracetablestrue \starttext \starttable[s(1em)o0|l|l|l|] % And I thought that regex were hard to read :) \NC MidE \NC early ModE \NC ModE \NC \AR \HL \NC ge:s \NC gi:s \NC geese \NC \AR \NC na:m \NC ne:minimal \NC name \NC \AR \NC mi:s \NC mays \NC mice \NC \AR \stoptable \starttabulate[|l|l|l|] \NC MidE \NC early ModE \NC ModE \NC \NR \HL \NC ge:s \NC gi:s \NC geese \NC \NR \NC na:m \NC ne:minimal \NC name \NC \NR \NC mi:s \NC mays \NC mice \NC \NR \stoptabulate \stoptext Aditya
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