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Added section-10 for settings and multiple TABLEs in a single page
Note that every element must use <tt>\b</tt> ... <tt>\e</tt>.
Willi Egger wrote a [[This Way - My Way#MyWay|My Way]] how he set a typesetter's lead type case: [http://dl.contextgarden.net/myway/NaturalTables.pdf Use of natural tables]
= Multipage TABLEs =
\stoptext
</texcode>
== Changing split location ==
Sometimes in multipage tables you have cells that have to stay together:
<texcode>
\bTABLE[split=yes]
\dorecurse{10}{\bTR \bTD xxx \eTD \eTR}
\bTR[after=\page] \bTD yyy \eTD \eTR
\dorecurse{10}{\bTR \bTD xxx \eTD \eTR}
\eTABLE
</texcode>
Note that the table is split after the yyy row.
= Tables in multiple columns =
= Creating tables from CSV data (Comma Separated Values) =
See also [[mM-database|the database module]]!
and [http://dl.contextgarden.net/myway/csv.pdf Creating Tables using CSV (Comma-separated values)] by Mojca Miklavec
From the mailing list at 2005-11-09 by Vit Zyka, modified by Hans Hagen:
<texcodecontext source="yes">\starttextsetuppapersize[A5]
% distance mechanism, per column (H)
\eTABLE
}
</context>
== Row Offset/Gap ==
Rows, just like columns, can be drawn with a gap.
As above, this can be achieved using:
<texcode>
\bTABLE[spaceinbetween=2cm]
...
\eTABLE
</texcode>
A gap differs from an offset as can be seen when drawing
cells using a background and/or a frame.
Note that offsets can be uniform <tt>[offset=dimension]</tt>,
or asymmetric
<tt>[toffset=dimension,boffset=dimension,loffset=dimension,roffset=dimension]</tt>
=== Gaps for individual cells ===
One might want to produce gaps between specific rows and/or specific columns.
This can be achieved using a white frame, for example,
as shown in the following (incomplete) fragment:
<texcode>\stoptextbTABLE[frame=off,columndistance=.5em] ... \bTR[topframe=on,framecolor=white,rulethickness=.5em] ... \eTR ...\eTABLE
</texcode>
Note that the <tt>rulethickness</tt> was set for the particular row
and not for the entire table; otherwise, it would enter into the
calculation of the cell dimensions (and interplay with other parameters
such as <tt>columndistance</tt>).
More complicated situations, for example, mixing frames, colored cell backgrounds, special gaps, ..., can be achieved using MetaPost graphics as a <tt>background</tt>.
== Make a cell bold ==
\stoptext
</context>
= Footnotes in TABLEs =
From this conversation on the mailing list[https://mailman.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2017/089097.html]. In order to get global footnotes printing after tables (without using the local footnotes trick):
<texcode>
Text\footnote{Normal Footnote}
\bTABLE[split=repeat,align=normal]
\bTR\bTD Something\postponenotes\footnote[x]{bla bla}\eTD\eTR
\bTR\bTD Foo\note[x] \eTD\eTR
\eTABLE
\flushnotes
More Text\footnote{Another Normal Footnote}
</texcode>
<context mode=mkiv source=no>
\setupnote[footnote][location=text]
\setupnotations[alternative=serried]
\starttext
Text\footnote{Normal Footnote}
\bTABLE[split=repeat,align=normal]
\bTR\bTD Something\postponenotes\footnote[x]{bla bla}\eTD\eTR
\bTR\bTD Foo\note[x] \eTD\eTR
\eTABLE
\flushnotes
More Text\footnote{Another Normal Footnote}
Note that the context wiki is eating the footnote numbers, but that they are there anyways.
\placefootnotes
\stoptext
</context>
= Settings for multiple TABLEs in a single page =
Please note that if you have multiple TABLEs in a single page, use the \start & \stop commands to ensure the locality of the attributes of each table. Else settings from one TABLE might have strange effects on the settings of another.
When you need a certain setup for multiple tables you can put all \setupTABLE commands in a setups-environment and load these settings at the start of the table, e.g.
<texcode>
\startsetups [tablesettings]
\setupTABLE [r] [1] [..,..=..,..]
\setupTABLE [c] [2] [..,..=..,..]
\stopsetups
\bTABLE[setups=tablesettings]
...
\eTABLE
</texcode>
When you need individual settings for each table add \start before the setup-commands and \stop after the table, this keeps all setups local to the current table, e.g.
<texcode>
\start
\setupTABLE [r] [1] [..,..=..,..]
\setupTABLE [c] [2] [..,..=..,..]
\bTABLE
...
\eTABLE
\stop
</texcode>
