Tables Overview
Revision as of 18:18, 4 September 2005 by Mojca Miklavec (talk | contribs) (→Features: fitting to the given table width possible (thank you, Vit); links to documentation added)
< Visuals | Structurals >
ConTeXt has a whole bunch of possibilities to typeset tables. Not each provides everything you may need, and the older ones are deprecated.
- tabulate (tabulation)
- table (TaBlE)
- tables (multipage TaBlE)
- TABLE (natural tables, HTML tables)
- linetable (new multipage tables)
Features
| Feature | tabulate | table | tables | TABLE | linetable |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| horizonal lines | \HL | \HL | \HL | \setupTABLE [topframe=on] or \setupTABLE [bottomframe=on] |
unknown |
| vertical lines | no | \VL | \VL | \setupTABLE [leftframe=on] or \setupTABLE [rightframe=on] |
unknown |
| multipage | yes | no | yes | yes, with split=yes or split=repeat | yes, even horizontally |
| repeated header | no | no | \starttablehead | \bTABLE [split=repeat] \bTABLEhead ... \eTABLEhead |
yes |
| repeated footer | no | no | \starttabletail | no | yes |
| automatic fitting to given table width | no | \SetTableToWidth | \SetTableToWidth |
\setupTABLE [option=stretch, textwidth=10cm] |
unknown |
| problems | very limited | limited | \starttext \starttablehead \HL \stoptablehead \starttables[|l|l|] \dorecurse{50}{% \VL SomeText \VL SomeText \VL \AR} \stoptables Problem: top margin on first page is bigger. \stoptext |
no setup for heights and widths (???) | still experimental, nearly no documentation |
| documentation (except wiki) | cont-eni.pdf, core-tbl.tex | ms-cb-en.pdf, core-tab.tex | core-tab.tex | enattab.pdf, NaturalTables.pdf, core-ntb.tex | core-ltb.tex |
