[NTG-context] Re: \starttable questions

2024-01-26 Thread Jim
On Fri, Jan 26, 2024 at 09:55 (+0100), Aditya Mahajan wrote: > On Thu, 25 Jan 2024, Jim wrote: >> The nice thing about your setup above is that it is nice and structured. >> But if a table calls for some row, column or cell to be treated >> differently, I guess I am in for some more reading. > Y

[NTG-context] Re: \starttable questions

2024-01-26 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Thu, 25 Jan 2024, Jim wrote: > The nice thing about your setup above is that it is nice and structured. > But if a table calls for some row, column or cell to be treated > differently, I guess I am in for some more reading. You can do: \setupTABLE[2][3] to select the formatting for row 3 and c

[NTG-context] Re: \starttable questions

2024-01-25 Thread vm via ntg-context
On 26/01/2024 01:52, Jim wrote: I won't argue with you about readability of tables, but if I am typesetting something for someone and they want it a certain way, I don't want to get into an argument about it with them either. :-) It all depends on the level of ignorance of your client. e.g.

[NTG-context] Re: \starttable questions

2024-01-25 Thread Jim
On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 22:22 (+0100), Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > 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

[NTG-context] Re: \starttable questions

2024-01-25 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Thu, 25 Jan 2024, Jim wrote: > On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 17:30 (+0100), Aditya Mahajan wrote: > > > I haven't looked at starttable in well over a decade, but I did document > > some of it: > > > https://www.tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb28-3/tb90mahajan.pdf > > https://www.tug.org/TUGboat/Article

[NTG-context] Re: \starttable questions

2024-01-25 Thread Jim
On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 17:30 (+0100), Aditya Mahajan wrote: > On Thu, 25 Jan 2024, Jim wrote: >> In a recent answer on this list, Mikael helped someone by pointing out the >> \HF[...] command. The \HF command is not listed in the \starttable wiki >> page. >> Q2: Is \HF[] documented anywhere?

[NTG-context] Re: \starttable questions

2024-01-25 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
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 on

[NTG-context] Re: \starttable questions

2024-01-25 Thread Jim
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 >> \inp

[NTG-context] Re: \starttable questions

2024-01-25 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Thu, 25 Jan 2024, Jim wrote: > In a recent answer on this list, Mikael helped someone by pointing out the > \HF[...] command. The \HF command is not listed in the \starttable wiki page. > > Q2: Is \HF[] documented anywhere? If so, can someone point me to that/those > document(s)? > > >

[NTG-context] Re: \starttable questions

2024-01-25 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
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 (