Re: [NTG-context] Tables for newbies [WAS Re: imbalanced columns]

15 Jul 2010


      On 15-7-2010 7:45, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس   سماوي حامد wrote:
...
Hi Aditya,
On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 11:37:32 -0600, Aditya Mahajan 
wrote:
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Have you tried using natural tables. Now you can use them with almost
the same amount of typing as the old table macros.
\startTABLE
\NC text 1 \NC text 2 \NC\NR
\NC text 3 \NC text 4 \NC\NR
\stopTABLE
Question for all: for MkIV, should we recommend ONLY natural tables to
newcomers, e.g., in a ConTeXt Book?
I have not used Natural Tables too much, but I can switch to those for
future work and consider Tables deprecated for most purposes.
Mainly a pedagogical/practical question: better to have one good way to
do things than burdening folks with too much info...
...
and you have a high level interface of \setupTABLE (although I do not
know if natural tables support equal column widths)
I guess we'll find out soon enough... ;-)
\bTABLE .. \eTABLE
\starttabulate .. \stoptabulate

tabulate is quite different and has unique properties

(there are also linetables but those are only for source code readers)

Hans


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