On Feb 23, 2011, at 6:16 PM, Philipp Gesang wrote: > On 2011-02-23 <17:07:38>, Daniel Lyons wrote: >> Is there a convenient way to create TaBlE tables from Lua? If so, >> where can I read about it? > > Good evening, Daniel! > > [-1] Isn’t TaBlE deprecated? <http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Tables_Overview>
I didn't know that! > [0] If you aim for convenience, wouldn’t you rather want to > switch to \[start|stop]tabulate? Its syntax is very similar > and there are a few examples to learn from in the context > source code. My particular situation is a bit more involved. I want to put SQL in my ConTeXt source and have it run it against my database and format the result nicely in my document. I think I see how to do it, I just need to be able to take the parsed output and make the visually appealing table. > [1] I don’t know how your table structure looks like, but the > example 1 can be a starting point, assuming a 2dimensional > table where all rows have the same element count: It's not going to be too fancy, just headers and rows with the same number of columns on each line. I do want to be able to control how they get aligned but otherwise nothing interesting. > [2] Item example 2, but using the cld interface > <http://wiki.contextgarden.net/cld>. > > Put both files in the same directory and run “context” on > table.tex to build the examples. Thanks! — Daniel Lyons ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
