Re: [NTG-context] Simplified input for natural tables

2009-03-13 Thread Mohamed Bana
looks nice. Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky wrote: In the same way as Hans wrote them in his exmple. Cool, but will it be included in context source? Or it is too early? I think that such solutions are too fragile. A robust way will be to use a complete m

Re: [NTG-context] Simplified input for natural tables

2009-03-12 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 12.03.2009 um 21:06 schrieb Aditya Mahajan: Cool, but will it be included in context source? Or it is too early? I think that such solutions are too fragile. A robust way will be to use a complete mediawiki (or any other markup) parser. It one in lua is available, integrating it to Con

Re: [NTG-context] Simplified input for natural tables

2009-03-12 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky wrote: In the same way as Hans wrote them in his exmple. Cool, but will it be included in context source? Or it is too early? I think that such solutions are too fragile. A robust way will be to use a complete mediawiki (or any other markup) parse

Re: [NTG-context] Simplified input for natural tables

2009-03-12 Thread Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
In the same way as Hans wrote them in his exmple. Cool, but will it be included in context source? Or it is too early? Best, Vyatcheslav ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to

Re: [NTG-context] Simplified input for natural tables

2009-03-12 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 12.03.2009 um 18:14 schrieb Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky: Hello Hraban, Simplified table syntax is much appreciated! Thank you for http://wiki.contextgarden.net/wikitable . However, I cannot understand how to use it. :) In the same way as Hans wrote them in his exmple. \startluacode functio

Re: [NTG-context] Simplified input for natural tables

2009-03-12 Thread Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
Hello Hraban, Simplified table syntax is much appreciated! Thank you for http://wiki.contextgarden.net/wikitable. However, I cannot understand how to use it. :) Best, Vyatcheslav ___ If your question is of interes

Re: [NTG-context] Simplified input for natural tables

2009-03-12 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Thank you for the two new table syntaxes! I wikified them: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/wikitable http://wiki.contextgarden.net/TABLE#TABLEs_with_old_table_syntax Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm a

Re: [NTG-context] Simplified input for natural tables

2009-03-09 Thread George N. White III
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 4:10 PM, John Devereux wrote: > [...] > I find that writing documents for context - once you get used to it - > is much nicer than using a wordprocessor. > > But the process of entering tables remains tedious and error prone, > compared to e.g. the Word equivalent that many

Re: [NTG-context] Simplified input for natural tables

2009-03-09 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 19:03, John Devereux wrote: > Hans Hagen writes: > > > [...] > > Hi Hans, > > Is there any possible way to use the wiki-style tables like: > > ^ Heading 1 ^ Heading 2 ^ > | Item 1    | Item 2 | > | Item 3    | Item 4 | > > (Probably with some wrapper) > > Perhaps this boils

Re: [NTG-context] Simplified input for natural tables

2009-03-08 Thread Hans Hagen
Wolfgang Schuster wrote: \long\def\dododoTABLENC#1\NC {\ifconditional\inTABLEnc\else\settrue\inTABLEnc\parseTR[][]\fi \dodoubleempty\parseTD#1\eTD\NC} I want to be able to give argument with \NC too, it's important for me to be able to use spanned columns/rows in the simple form. i had tha

Re: [NTG-context] Simplified input for natural tables

2009-03-08 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: > Aditya Mahajan wrote: >> >> On Sun, 8 Mar 2009, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: >> >>> Hi Hans, >>> >>> natural tables are perfect to create tables with a fixed size for the >>> cells but the syntax requires sometimes a lot of typing for small content

Re: [NTG-context] Simplified input for natural tables

2009-03-08 Thread John Devereux
Hans Hagen writes: > John Devereux wrote: >> Hans Hagen writes: >> >> >> [...] >> >> Hi Hans, >> >> Is there any possible way to use the wiki-style tables like: >> >> ^ Heading 1 ^ Heading 2 ^ >> | Item 1| Item 2 | >> | Item 3| Item 4 | >> >> (Probably with some wrapper) >> >> Perhaps th

Re: [NTG-context] Simplified input for natural tables

2009-03-08 Thread Hans Hagen
John Devereux wrote: Hans Hagen writes: [...] Hi Hans, Is there any possible way to use the wiki-style tables like: ^ Heading 1 ^ Heading 2 ^ | Item 1| Item 2 | | Item 3| Item 4 | (Probably with some wrapper) Perhaps this boils down to asking if it is possible to (re)define "speci

Re: [NTG-context] Simplified input for natural tables

2009-03-08 Thread John Devereux
Hans Hagen writes: [...] Hi Hans, Is there any possible way to use the wiki-style tables like: ^ Heading 1 ^ Heading 2 ^ | Item 1| Item 2 | | Item 3| Item 4 | (Probably with some wrapper) Perhaps this boils down to asking if it is possible to (re)define "special" characters, within

Re: [NTG-context] Simplified input for natural tables

2009-03-08 Thread Hans Hagen
Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Sun, 8 Mar 2009, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Hi Hans, natural tables are perfect to create tables with a fixed size for the cells but the syntax requires sometimes a lot of typing for small content and takes to many lines of code in the document. less code and more e

Re: [NTG-context] Simplified input for natural tables

2009-03-08 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Sun, 8 Mar 2009, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Hi Hans, natural tables are perfect to create tables with a fixed size for the cells but the syntax requires sometimes a lot of typing for small content and takes to many lines of code in the document. I wrote a while ago a simple wrapper to use a t

[NTG-context] Simplified input for natural tables

2009-03-08 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Hi Hans, natural tables are perfect to create tables with a fixed size for the cells but the syntax requires sometimes a lot of typing for small content and takes to many lines of code in the document. I wrote a while ago a simple wrapper to use a table/tabulate like syntax for the input, w