On 11-4-2010 3:25, Steffen Wolfrum wrote:
Hi all,
In a book on construction engineering I found two kind of tables that presumably could be set very nicely in ConTeXt (see attachments). Set with MetaPost within natural tables?
1) Curly braces that span over cells: Their height should be depending to the cell's height (nr=2 oder nr=3). http://werksatz.com/attachments/braces.jpg
2) Arrows that are pointing from one cell to an other (middle or border of cell), http://werksatz.com/attachments/arrows.jpg
To me this looks like standard purpose, that most like is already pre-defined somewhere in Metapost/MetaFun/ConTeXt (MkII please!) ...
Is there any MetaPost guru out there that knows these cases?
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