Goodevening all, The examples in the 'natural tables' manual are nice [although I keep wondering why you would {\em ever} need some specimina], but what I'm looking I'm not able to fabricate. What I want is one line with words like invoice: date: etcetera, and the following line will contain the proper data [like in Victor Eijkhouts ntg-letter]. I'm not sure tables (maybe columns?) are the solution, but this is what I've got [a portion of it] sofar. It won't work, that is: somehow I'm not able to adjust the width of the columns? Can anybody see what's wrong here? \starttekst \hbox \bgroup \ignorespaces \bTABLE \setupTABLE[column][1][width=1cm] \setupTABLE[column][2][width=2cm] \setupTABLE[column][3][width=3cm] \setupTABLE[column][4][width=4cm] \setupTABLE[column][5][width=10cm] \bTR \bTD {\ss\bf factuur:} \eTD \bTD {\ss\bf debiteur:} \eTD \bTD {\ss\bf betreft:} \eTD \bTD {\ss\bf de dato:} \eTD \bTD {\ss\bf uw kenmerk:} \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD \getvariable{factuur}{factuurnummer} \eTD \bTD \getvariable{factuur}{debiteurnummer} \eTD \bTD \getvariable{factuur}{betreft}\eTD \bTD \getvariable{factuur}{werkdatum}\eTD \bTD \getvariable{factuur}{uwkenmerk}\eTD \eTR \eTABLE \unskip \egroup \stoptekst Furthermore this section of the Invoice-style will be followed by figures ;-], and again my question is: should I use columns or tables here? Thanks in advance, Roef Ragas
At 08:02 AM 2/7/2003 +0100, you wrote:
Goodevening all,
The examples in the 'natural tables' manual are nice [although I keep wondering why you would {\em ever} need some specimina], but what I'm looking I'm not able to fabricate.
What I want is one line with words like invoice: date: etcetera, and the following line will contain the proper data [like in Victor Eijkhouts ntg-letter].
I'm not sure tables (maybe columns?) are the solution, but this is what I've got [a portion of it] sofar. It won't work, that is: somehow I'm not able to adjust the width of the columns? Can anybody see what's wrong here?
\starttekst \hbox \bgroup \ignorespaces \bTABLE \setupTABLE[column][1][width=1cm] \setupTABLE[column][2][width=2cm] \setupTABLE[column][3][width=3cm] \setupTABLE[column][4][width=4cm] \setupTABLE[column][5][width=10cm] \bTR \bTD {\ss\bf factuur:} \eTD \bTD {\ss\bf debiteur:} \eTD \bTD {\ss\bf betreft:} \eTD \bTD {\ss\bf de dato:} \eTD \bTD {\ss\bf uw kenmerk:} \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD \getvariable{factuur}{factuurnummer} \eTD \bTD \getvariable{factuur}{debiteurnummer} \eTD \bTD \getvariable{factuur}{betreft}\eTD \bTD \getvariable{factuur}{werkdatum}\eTD \bTD \getvariable{factuur}{uwkenmerk}\eTD \eTR \eTABLE \unskip \egroup \stoptekst
hm, here it works although your first column is quite narrow you use english keywords in a dutch context, so change column into kolom and width into breedte how about: \setupTABLE[row] [1] [style=\ss\bf] % letter= which makes the first row cleaner: \bTR \bTD factuur: \eTD \bTD debiteur: \eTD \bTD betreft: \eTD \bTD de dato: \eTD \bTD uw kenmerk: \eTD \eTR no grouping needed, sinze the cell is basically a \framed nevertheless, i would opt for: \starttabulate[||i1|i1|i1|i1|] % \starttabulatie \NC \ss \bf factuur: \NC \ss \bf debiteur: \NC \ss \bf betreft: \NC \ss \bf de dato: \NC \ss \bf kenmerk: \NC\NR \NC test \NC another test \NC and another one \NC and one more \NC done \NC \NR \stoptabulate % \stoptabulatie (btw, some next release will have an example interface to letters and an associated database) Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------
Hans Hagen said this at Fri, 7 Feb 2003 10:48:12 +0100:
\bTABLE \eTABLE
nevertheless, i would opt for:
\starttabulate[||i1|i1|i1|i1|] % \starttabulatie \stoptabulate % \stoptabulatie
Hmm, that's something else I haven't quite understood--the pros and cons of the three TABLE mechanisms. I've only bothered to learn \bTABLE, because it's closest to the HTML tables I already knew well, and because it was advertised as being the most powerful. Could someone who knows more than I do give a brief summary of why I would want either of the two other table mechanisms over the newest TABLE?
(btw, some next release will have an example interface to letters and an associated database)
Hans, is this the same release that will include the "splitting tables over multiple pages" feature you've mentioned? Cheers, adam -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk Computing Dept, Lancaster University +44(0)1524/594.537 Lancaster, LA1 4YR, UK Fax:+44(0)1524/593.608 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
At 10:58 AM 2/7/2003 +0000, Adam Lindsay wrote:
Hmm, that's something else I haven't quite understood--the pros and cons of the three TABLE mechanisms. I've only bothered to learn \bTABLE, because it's closest to the HTML tables I already knew well, and because it was advertised as being the most powerful.
Could someone who knows more than I do give a brief summary of why I would want either of the two other table mechanisms over the newest TABLE?
\starttable : fast, some limitations (less spanning), based on patched TaBlE \starttabulate : reasonable fast, no vertical lines, auto-width par's, split across pages \bTABLE : flexible, automatic, slow, no templates so, for paragraph based tables i use tabulate, for fancy stuff i use bTABLE, otherwise i use table
(btw, some next release will have an example interface to letters and an associated database)
Hans, is this the same release that will include the "splitting tables over multiple pages" feature you've mentioned?
ah, that's mechanism number 4; already in there but undocumented -) Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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