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* [[Tabulate]] (tabulation, '''recommended for simple requirements''')
* [[TABLE]] (natural tables, HTML tables, '''recommended''')
* [[xtables]] (extreme tables – newest table modemostly compatible to natural tables, maybe recommended better for MkIVpage breaking)* framed tables (for simple tables that span hundreds of pages)
Older ones:
<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>[[TablesTABLE]]</th><th>[[TABLExtables]]</th><th>[[Linetable]]</th><th>[[xtablesframedtable]]</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><cmd>HL</cmd></td>
[bottomframe=on]
</texcode></td>
<td><texcode>\setupxtable[...]</texcode></td>
<td>unknown</td>
<td>yes</td>
<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><cmd>VL</cmd></td>
[rightframe=on]
</texcode></td>
<td><texcode>\setupxtable[...]</texcode></td>
<td>unknown</td>
<td>yes</td>
<th style="background-color:#DDDDDD">multipage</th>
<td>yes</td>
<td>no</td><td>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>
</texcode>
only one line</td>
<td>notable<b>s</tdb>only:<td><texcode>
\setuptables
[split=repeat]
\eTABLEhead
</texcode></td>
<td>yes</td>
<td>yes</td>
<td>yes</td>
<th style="background-color:#DDDDDD">repeated footer</th>
<td>no</td>
<td>notable<b>s</tdb>only:<td><texcode>
\setuptables
[split=repeat]
\stoptabletail
</texcode></td>
<td>no?</td>
<td>yes</td>
<td>no</td>
<td>no</td><td>yesunknown</td>
</tr>
<th style="background-color:#DDDDDD">automatic fitting to given table width</th>
<td>no</td>
<td><cmd>SetTableToWidth</cmd></td>
<td><cmd>SetTableToWidth</cmd></td>
<td>
textwidth=10cm]
</texcode></td>
<td>yes</td>
<td>default</td>
<td>unknown</td>
<td>default</td>
</tr>
<th style="background-color:#DDDDDD">problems</th>
<td>very limited</td>
<td>limited</td>some limitations, problems with spacing<td><texcode>
\starttext
\starttablehead
</texcode></td>
<td>there may be problems in width and height calculation and perhaps the multipage features</td>
<td>experimental, nearly no documentation</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>[[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>[http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/xtables-mkiv.pdf xtables-mkiv.pdf], [[source:tabl-xtb.lua|tabl-xtb.lua]]?</td>
</tr>
</table>
[[Category:Tables]]
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