Changes

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 multipage tables2007 and 2008).

<th>Feature</th><th>[[tabulateTabulate]]</th><th>[[tableTable]]/[[Tables]]</th><th>[[tablesTABLE]]</th><th>[[TABLExtables]]</th><th>[[Linetable]]</th><th>[[linetableframedtable]]</th>

<td>no</td><td>yes(tables)</td>

<td>no</tdtexcode>\setuptabulate[header=repeat]\starttabulatehead...\stoptabulatehead<td/texcode>noonly one line</td><td>table<cmdb>s</b> only:<texcode>\setuptables [split=repeat] \starttablehead...\stoptablehead</cmdtexcode></td>

<td><cmd>starttabletail</cmd></td><td>no</td><td>yesunknown</td>

<td><cmdtexcode>SetTableToWidth\setupTABLE[option=stretch, textwidth=10cm]</cmdtexcode></td><td>yes</td><td>nodefault</td>

<td>limited</td>some limitations, problems with spacing<td><texcode>

<td>no setup for heights there may be problems in width and widthsheight calculation and perhaps the multipage features</td><td>very verbose</td><td>still lack of documentation, just experimental</td><td>limitations, nearly no lack of documentation</td>

<td>cont-enp[http://pmrb.free.fr/contextref.pdf contextref.pdf], core[[source:tabl-tbl.mkii|tabl-tbl.texmkii]], [http://www.ntg.nl/maps/pdf/22_28.pdf MAPS article]</td><td>[[manual:mp-cb-en.pdf|ms-cb-en.pdf]], core[[source:tabl-tab.texmkii|tabl-tab.mkii]]</td><td>core[[manual:enattab.pdf|enattab.pdf]], [http://dl.contextgarden.net/myway/NaturalTables.pdf NaturalTables.pdf], [[source:tabl-ntb.mkii|tabl-tabntb.mkii]] / [[source:tabl-ntb.mkiv|tabl-ntb.texmkiv]]</td><td>enattab[http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/xtables-mkiv.pdf, NaturalTablesxtables-mkiv.pdf], core[[source:tabl-xtb.lua|tabl-ntbxtb.texlua]]</td><td>core[[source:tabl-ltb.texmkii|tabl-ltb.mkii]] / [[source:tabl-ltb.mkiv|tabl-ltb.mkiv]]</td><td>?</td></tr></table> [[Category:Tables]]