Restarting an old thread ...
On Wed, 6 Jun 2007, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> What is the correct way of using * key with TaBlE? The following does not work
>
> \starttext
>
> \starttable[|*{2}l|]
This should be [*{2}{l|}] but even then it does not work.
> \HL
> \NC A \NC B \NC \NR
> \HL
> \stoptable
> \starttable[|l|l|]
> \HL
> \NC A \NC B \NC \NR
> \HL
> \stoptable
>
> \stoptext
I finally found out why this is not working. \getTABLEnofcolumns does
not expand *. For example
This works fine.
\getTABLEnofcolumns{|l|l|}
\the\maxTABLEcolumn % gives 2.
This does not.
\getTABLEnofcolumns{|*{2}{l|}}
\the\maxTABLEcolumn %gives 1
\getTABLEnoofcolumns is simply counting the number of | in the format.
It should first expand the *#1#2, and then do the counting. A really
ugly workaround
\starttable[|*{2}{l|}]
% Manually set the number of columns :-(
\noalign{\global\maxTABLEcolumn=2}
\NC AA \NC 5 \NC \AR
\NC AAA \NC 6 \NC \AR
\stoptable
I do not understand TeX well enough to correct the
\get\TABLEnofcolumns macro.
Aditya
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