Hello,
just one user's point of view:
There are many table-creating commands.
Some of them are deprecated and only supported for backward compatibility.
It seemed to me till now that natural tables (provided by \...TABLE...
commands) were best choice as they are versatile, they have friendly setup,
they may be split over more pages (with repeating header/footer) and (almost
each feature) may be specified individually for row, column or even cell.
It seemed to that nothing more user might wish.
(And - as "more complicated", i.e. more typing to enter them, Lua helps in this
situation.)
Now, we have xtables which have the same functionality as TABLEs, or a bit more.
But - (?) xtables have a bit "poorer" setup options (so far? - By Wolfgang's
answer).
Do you plan to add something equivalent to
\setupTABLE[<row>][<column>][<settings>]
because xtables lack the function to set values for certain rows/columns.
Wolfgang
The "more" is - named cells? Faster rendering?
IMHO - wouldn't be better to extend TABLEs to be as good as xtables (i.e. - add
named cells)?
Or to unify xtables and TABLEs - make xtables and TABLEs have the same
functionality and options, and make their names/commands synonyms?
- When I started using Ctx, there were so many tabling commands and I always had to
compare their possibilities to select one; and to check whether the chosen
"tabler" is not deprecated.
So I ended up with TABLEs (and Lua).
Now, it seems to me that TABLEs will become deprecated, being replaced with
xtables...
Best regards,
Lukas
On Sun, 08 Sep 2013 17:04:21 +0200, Hans Hagen <pra...@wxs.nl> wrote:
On 9/8/2013 4:41 PM, hwit...@gmail.com wrote:
Yes, I was need to set the height and width of cells as well as turn on and off
top/bottom, left/right cell frames. Is this functionality covered in extreme
tables?
you can still do that but with either explicit settings or with symbolic
references to settings
When you write "certain rows and colums" do you mean certain settings for rows
and columns?
you can have named rows/columns
If some functions are missing, I assume that they will be added in the future.
Is this assumption correct?
it is *not* a replacement for TABLE in the sense that not all
functionality is the same; there might however be more functionality in
xtreme tables
Hans
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