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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 multipage tables2007 and 2008).
== Features ==
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<th>Feature</th><th>[[tabulateTabulate]]</th><th>[[tableTable]]/[[Tables]]</th><th>[[tablesTABLE]]</th><th>[[TABLExtables]]</th><th>[[Linetable]]</th><th>[[linetableframedtable]]</th>
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<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>
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<th style="background-color:#DDDDDD">vertical lines</th>
<td>no</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>
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<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>
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<th style="background-color:#DDDDDD">repeated header</th>
<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><texcode>
\bTABLE
\eTABLEhead
</texcode></td>
<td>yes</td>
<td>yes</td>
<td>yes</td>
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<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><cmd>starttabletail</cmd></td><td>no</td><td>yesunknown</td>
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<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>
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<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>still very verbose</td><td>lack of documentation, just experimental</td><td>limitations, nearly no lack of documentation</td>
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<!-- Tabulate Table(s) TABLE xtable linetable framedtable -->
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<th style="background-color:#DDDDDD">documentation (except wiki)</th>
<td>[[manualhttp:cont-eni//pmrb.free.fr/contextref.pdf|cont-enicontextref.pdf]], [[source:coretabl-tbl.texmkii|coretabl-tbl.texmkii]], [http://www.ntg.nl/maps/pdf/22_28.pdf MAPS article]</td><td>[[manual:mp-cb-en.pdf|ms-cb-en.pdf]], [[source:core-tab.tex|core-tab.tex]]</td><td>[[source:coretabl-tab.texmkii|coretabl-tab.texmkii]]</td><td>[[manual:enattab.pdf|enattab.pdf]], [http://dl.contextgarden.net/myway/NaturalTables.pdf NaturalTables.pdf], [[source:coretabl-ntb.texmkii|coretabl-ntb.texmkii]] / [[source:tabl-ntb.mkiv|tabl-ntb.mkiv]]</td><td>[http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/xtables-mkiv.pdf xtables-mkiv.pdf], [[source:coretabl-xtb.lua|tabl-xtb.lua]]</td><td>[[source:tabl-ltb.mkii|tabl-ltb.mkii]] / [[source:tabl-ltb.texmkiv|coretabl-ltb.texmkiv]]</td><td>?</td></tr></table>
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