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ConTeXt has a whole bunch of possibilities to typeset tables. Not each provides everything you may need, and the older ones are deprecated.

* [[tabulateTabulate]] (tabulation, '''recommended for simple requirements''')* [[tableTABLE]] (natural tables, HTML tables, '''recommended''')* [[xtables]] (extreme tables – mostly compatible to natural tables, better for page breaking)* framed tables (for simple tables that span hundreds of pages) Older ones: * [[Table]] (TaBlE, '''deprecated''')* [[tablesTables]] (multipage TaBlE, '''deprecated''')* [[TABLELinetable]] (natural "new" multipage tables, HTML '''experimental''' and probably obsolete) Note that you can use natural and extreme tableswith the old Table/Tabulate syntax. (To make this even more confusing...) If you have simple tables with lots of contents, and you're tired of typing <code>\bTR\bTD</code>s or <code>\NC\NR</code>s, you can also have a look at* [[linetableM-database|database]] module and its [http://dl.contextgarden.net/myway/csv.pdf manual].* [[wikitable]], a TABLE wrapper that uses MediaWiki syntax* [http://tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb28-3/tb90mahajan.pdf ConTeXt basics for users: Table macros]and [http://www.tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb29-1/tb91mahajan.pdf Table macros II] by Aditya Mahajan (new 2007 and 2008). == Features ==<table style="border:1px solid #DDDDDD; width:100%" align="left" valign="top"><tr style="background-color:#DDDDDD" align="left" valign="top"><th>Feature</th><th>[[Tabulate]]</th><th>[[Table]]/[[Tables]]</th><th>[[TABLE]]</th><th>[[xtables]]</th><th>[[Linetable]]</th><th>[[framedtable]]</th></tr> <tr align="left" valign="top"><th style="background-color:#DDDDDD">horizonal lines</th><td><cmd>HL</cmd></td><td><cmd>HL</cmd></td><td><texcode>\setupTABLE[topframe=on]or\setupTABLE[bottomframe=on]</texcode></td><td><texcode>\setupxtable[...]</texcode></td><td>unknown</td><td>yes</td></tr> <tr align="left" valign="top" style="background-color:#EEEEEE;"><th style="background-color:#DDDDDD">vertical lines</th><td><cmd>VL</cmd></td><td><cmd>VL</cmd></td><td><texcode>\setupTABLE[leftframe=on]or\setupTABLE[rightframe=on]</texcode></td><td><texcode>\setupxtable[...]</texcode></td><td>unknown</td><td>yes</td></tr> <tr align="left" valign="top"><th style="background-color:#DDDDDD">multipage </th><td>yes</td><td>no / yes (tables)</td><td>yes, with <tt>split=yes</tt> or <tt>split=repeat</tt></td><td>vertically yes, horizontally not but planned</td><td>yes, even horizontally</td><td>yes</td></tr> <tr align="left" valign="top" style="background-color:#EEEEEE;"><th style="background-color:#DDDDDD">repeated header</th><td><texcode>\setuptabulate[header=repeat]\starttabulatehead...\stoptabulatehead</texcode>only one line</td><td>table<b>s</b> only:<texcode>\setuptables [split=repeat] \starttablehead...\stoptablehead</texcode></td><td><texcode>\bTABLE[split=repeat]\bTABLEhead...\eTABLEhead</texcode></td><td>yes</td><td>yes</td><td>yes</td></tr> <tr align="left" valign="top"><th style="background-color:#DDDDDD">repeated footer</th><td>no</td><td>table<b>s</b> only:<texcode>\setuptables [split=repeat] \starttabletail...\stoptabletail</texcode></td><td>no?</td><td>yes</td><td>no</td><td>unknown</td></tr> <tr align="left" valign="top" style="background-color:#EEEEEE;"><th style="background-color:#DDDDDD">automatic fitting to given table width</th><td>no</td><td><cmd>SetTableToWidth</cmd></td><td><texcode>\setupTABLE[option=stretch, textwidth=10cm]</texcode></td><td>yes</td><td>default</td><td>unknown</td></tr> <tr align="left" valign="top"><th style="background-color:#DDDDDD">problems</th><td>very limited</td><td>some limitations, problems with spacing<texcode>\starttext\starttablehead \HL\stoptablehead\starttables[|l|l|]\dorecurse{50}{% \VL SomeText \VL SomeText \VL \AR}\stoptablesProblem: top margin onfirst page is bigger.\stoptext</texcode></td><td>there may be problems in width and height calculation and perhaps the multipage features</td><td>very verbose</td><td>lack of documentation, just experimental</td><td>limitations, lack of documentation</td></tr> <!-- Tabulate Table(s) TABLE xtable linetable framedtable --><tr align="left" valign="top" style="background-color:#EEEEEE;"><th style="background-color:#DDDDDD">documentation (except wiki)</th><td>[http://pmrb.free.fr/contextref.pdf contextref.pdf], [[source:tabl-tbl.mkii|tabl-tbl.mkii]], [http://www.ntg.nl/maps/pdf/22_28.pdf MAPS article]</td><td>[[manual:mp-cb-en.pdf|ms-cb-en.pdf]], [[source:tabl-tab.mkii|tabl-tab.mkii]]</td><td>[[manual:enattab.pdf|enattab.pdf]], [http://dl.contextgarden.net/myway/NaturalTables.pdf NaturalTables.pdf], [[source:tabl-ntb.mkii|tabl-ntb.mkii]] / [[source:tabl-ntb.mkiv|tabl-ntb.mkiv]]</td><td>[http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/xtables-mkiv.pdf xtables-mkiv.pdf], [[source:tabl-xtb.lua|tabl-xtb.lua]]</td><td>[[source:tabl-ltb.mkii|tabl-ltb.mkii]] / [[source:tabl-ltb.mkiv|tabl-ltb.mkiv]]</td><td>?</td></tr></table> [[Category:Tables]]