Jim schrieb am 25.01.2024 um 22:01:
Hi Henning,
On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 17:16 (+0100), Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
Am 25.01.24 um 16:12 schrieb Jim:
Hi, I was wondering if anyone here could help me with these three things:
For a long time I have been using Wichura's TaBle macros (i.e., what one
gets with
\input table
in plain TeX) and would like to use what appears to be ConTeXt's version of
those (i.e., what one gets with \starttable ... \stoptable).
However, https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/starttable says
The environment \starttable ... \stoptable is and (sic) old and
nearly obsolete way to handle tabular material
Q1: are there plans to remove \starttable ... \endtable from ConTeXt any
time "soon", or is that wiki comment gratuitously pessimistic?
Hans suggests to use tabulate as long as it fits.
I just gave that a try, using the same syntax as \starttable:
\starttable[|c|c|]
\HL
\VL \bf Year \VL \bf Citizens \VL\SR
\HL
\VL 1675 \VL ˜428 \VL\FR
\VL 1795 \VL 1124 \VL\MR
\VL 1880 \VL 2405 \VL\MR
\VL 1995 \VL 7408 \VL\LR
\HL
\stoptable
\starttabulate[|c|c|]
\HL
\VL \bf Year \VL \bf Citizens \VL\SR
\HL
\VL 1675 \VL ˜428 \VL\FR
\VL 1795 \VL 1124 \VL\MR
\VL 1880 \VL 2405 \VL\MR
\VL 1995 \VL 7408 \VL\LR
\HL
\stoptabulate
While tabulate produced a table with the above input, it needs some work to
make the table look good. (The columns are too narrow, the vrules don't
meet the hrules, ...).
Perhaps these can be fixed with some tweaking, but I notice that in all of
https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/starttabulate
and
https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Tabulate
and
http://www.ntg.nl/maps/22/28.pdf
there is a conspicuous lack of examples with vrules. And the tables in the
(at least) the starttabulate wiki page which use vrules don't use tabulate
to create the tables.
Coincidence? I think not. :-)
Table which rely on rules to make the content readable have a serious
problem
(read Edward Tufte books how you can improve the visual style) but the
better
alternative in this case are either natural tables or extreme tables.
Below is a example which uses the table like wrapper for natural tables
which makes adding rules and changing the padding around text very
simple because each table cell is a \framed block with all its options.
\starttext
\startsetups[ruledtable]
\setupTABLE [frame=off,align=middle,loffset=.5em,roffset=.5em]
\setupTABLE [column] [each] [leftframe=on,rightframe=on]
\setupTABLE [row] [first]
[topframe=on,bottomframe=on,foregroundstyle=bold]
\setupTABLE [row] [last] [bottomframe=on]
\stopsetups
\startTABLE[setups=ruledtable]
\NC Year \NC Citizens \NC\NR
\NC 1675 \NC ˜428 \NC\NR
\NC 1795 \NC 1124 \NC\NR
\NC 1880 \NC 2405 \NC\NR
\NC 1995 \NC 7408 \NC\NR
\stopTABLE
\stoptext
Wolfgang
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