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:
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 -----------------------------------------------------------------
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
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