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* {{cmd|bTABLEhead}} (table header, can repeat after page breaks)* {{cmd|bTABLEnext}} (alternate table header on following pages)* {{cmd|bTABLEsection}} (subtitle that also can repeat after page breaks)* {{cmd|bTABLEbody}} (table body)* {{cmd|bTABLEfoot}} (table footer)

your multipage table. Please take account of the fact, that thehead cells are enclosed by {{cmd|bTH}} and {{cmd|eTH}} (and not \[be]TCTD).

 That won't won’t become better before this calculations are newly written in Lua. (Said Hans on 2010-09-24.)And it became better for LMTX, in 2021/2022.

When one has you have a multi-page TABLE in the document (using either the <tt>split=repeat</tt> or <tt>split=yes</tt> options), and the (page) header text is also organized as styled with a TABLE, the table header ends up getting crammed into the document header resulting in incorrect output. To alleviate this , {{cmd|bTABLEnested}} and {{cmd|eTABLEnested}} may be used as in the example below to ensure that table headers don't don’t get mixed up with the document header.

\bTR[style=bold]\dorecurse{85}{\bTH Header Col #1\eTH}\eTR

\dorecurse{10050}{\bTR\dorecurse{85}{\bTDRow #1-col ##1\eTD}\eTR}

Compiling the above by using {{cmd|bTABLE}} and {{cmd|eTABLE}} instead of {{cmd|bTABLEnested}} and {{cmd|eTABLEnested}} in the setup for <textt>headertable</textt> one notices the need for the nested type.

... should just work (at least in luaTeX and your installation but not here...). See the following example.

\setupTABLE[r][each][height=1cm0.5cm]

\bTR \bTD \eTD \bTD \eTD \bTD \eTD \bTD \eTD \bTD \eTD \bTD \eTD \eTR\bTR \bTD[nc=2,nr=2] r1c1 \eTD \bTD r1c3 \eTD \bTD[nr=2] r1c4 \eTD \bTD[nrnc=2,ncnr=2] r1c5 \eTD \eTR

= Tables in page headers Creating tables from CSV data (Comma Separated Values) =

Sometimes you want to use a table layout in a header'''Beware, this is very old code'''; while it might still work (untested), for example it makes more sense to show a company's name and contact information at the top of each page of an invoice. The standard `\bTABLE` command causes issues so use `\bTABLEnested` instead. The parameters are the samedo data processing with Lua.

% A setup Iterate over all the lines of text captured with \obeylines active% command to define the table's appearancecall is first argument, is not called for empty lines\startsetups headertablebgroup\setupTABLE[frame=off]obeylines\setupTABLE[column][gdef\ProcessLines#1#2{\doProcessLines{#1][align=flushleft]}#2^^M\doProcessLines}%\setupTABLE[column][gdef\doProcessLines#1#2][align=flushright]^^M#3\doProcessLines{% \stopsetupsdoifnotempty{#2}{#1{#2}}%... \doifnotempty{#3}{\doProcessLines{#1}#3\doProcessLines}%}% A setup \egroup \def\startCSV{\bgroup\obeylines\dostartCSV}</texcode> The next lines are an example of transforming the data into a natural table, but can be easily adapted to define any type of the table's contentsor perhaps (mis)used in even more strange ways: <texcode>\startsetups headertextdef\TBLentry#1{\bTD#1\eTD}\bTABLEnesteddef\TBLline#1{\bTR\processcommalist[setups=headertable, ...#1]\TBLentry}...\eTABLEnesteddef\dostartCSV#1\stopCSV{% \stopsetupsbTABLE... \ProcessLines\TBLline{#1}% \eTABLE \egroup}</texcode> The following lines will then finally result in a desired table: <texcode>% Use some additional settings for the table in the headermay be made as well\setupTABLE[c][2][style=\tt]\setupheadertextssetupTABLE[c][3][align=middle]\setups{headertext}setupTABLE[r][1][style=bold]% how to override the \tt in the second column?