Re: [NTG-context] Escaping tabulate

2005-07-17 Thread Christopher Creutzig
Radhelorn wrote: Oh, thanks. Can you describe in a few words distinction between {} and \bgroup\egroup? I know that \bgroup\egroup are implicit characters and useful in macro definitions but what this really means? You can have \def\startfoo{\bgroup} \def\stopfoo{\egroup} but you cannot

Re: [NTG-context] Escaping tabulate

2005-07-17 Thread Christopher Creutzig
My other mail didn't come back yet, so to answer the question I raised in there: In this context, \start and \stop won't help, since \hbox expects something that expands to { to follow. Christopher ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl

Re: [NTG-context] Escaping tabulate

2005-07-17 Thread Radhelorn
Christopher Creutzig wrote: Radhelorn wrote: Oh, thanks. Can you describe in a few words distinction between {} and \bgroup\egroup? I know that \bgroup\egroup are implicit characters and useful in macro definitions but what this really means? You can have \def\startfoo{\bgroup}

Re: [NTG-context] Escaping tabulate

2005-07-17 Thread Hans Hagen
Peter Münster wrote: On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Radhelorn wrote: I've solved aligning problem with \hfill\vbox or \rightaligned, but this needs to be done for each table. Did I miss something important? Hello, you can define a macro. For example: \def\startMyMidAlignedTable{\hbox to

Re: [NTG-context] Escaping tabulate

2005-07-17 Thread Hans Hagen
Radhelorn wrote: Hans Hagen wrote: Radhelorn wrote: Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Am 2005-07-14 um 15:49 schrieb Radhelorn: I'm expirementing with tabular layouts and have many problems with tabulate. For example I want to make tabulate header of description but ConTeXt gives me errors

Re: [NTG-context] Escaping tabulate

2005-07-17 Thread Brooks Moses
At 12:21 PM 7/17/2005, Radhelorn wrote: Christopher Creutzig wrote: I believe in ConTeXt you'd usually(?) use \start and \stop instead of \bgroup and \egroup, though. What do the experts say about this? I've seen \start \stop pairs in some examples, but there are so many of them in sources

Re: [NTG-context] Escaping tabulate

2005-07-17 Thread Hans Hagen
Radhelorn wrote: Christopher Creutzig wrote: Radhelorn wrote: Oh, thanks. Can you describe in a few words distinction between {} and \bgroup\egroup? I know that \bgroup\egroup are implicit characters and useful in macro definitions but what this really means? You can have

Re: [NTG-context] Escaping tabulate

2005-07-17 Thread Hans Hagen
Brooks Moses wrote: At 12:21 PM 7/17/2005, Radhelorn wrote: Christopher Creutzig wrote: I believe in ConTeXt you'd usually(?) use \start and \stop instead of \bgroup and \egroup, though. What do the experts say about this? I've seen \start \stop pairs in some examples, but there are so

Re: [NTG-context] Escaping tabulate

2005-07-15 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2005-07-14 um 15:49 schrieb Radhelorn: I'm expirementing with tabular layouts and have many problems with tabulate. For example I want to make tabulate header of description but ConTeXt gives me errors about missing } and such. I is possible to make tabulate one big letter as in LaTeX

Re: [NTG-context] Escaping tabulate

2005-07-15 Thread Radhelorn
Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Am 2005-07-14 um 15:49 schrieb Radhelorn: I'm expirementing with tabular layouts and have many problems with tabulate. For example I want to make tabulate header of description but ConTeXt gives me errors about missing } and such. I is possible to make tabulate

Re: [NTG-context] Escaping tabulate

2005-07-15 Thread Hans Hagen
Radhelorn wrote: Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Am 2005-07-14 um 15:49 schrieb Radhelorn: I'm expirementing with tabular layouts and have many problems with tabulate. For example I want to make tabulate header of description but ConTeXt gives me errors about missing } and such. I is possible

Re: [NTG-context] Escaping tabulate

2005-07-15 Thread Radhelorn
Hans Hagen wrote: Radhelorn wrote: Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Am 2005-07-14 um 15:49 schrieb Radhelorn: I'm expirementing with tabular layouts and have many problems with tabulate. For example I want to make tabulate header of description but ConTeXt gives me errors about missing } and

Re: [NTG-context] Escaping tabulate

2005-07-15 Thread Peter Münster
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Radhelorn wrote: I've solved aligning problem with \hfill\vbox or \rightaligned, but this needs to be done for each table. Did I miss something important? Hello, you can define a macro. For example: \def\startMyMidAlignedTable{\hbox to \hsize\bgroup\hss\vbox

Re: [NTG-context] Escaping tabulate

2005-07-15 Thread Radhelorn
Peter Münster wrote: On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Radhelorn wrote: I've solved aligning problem with \hfill\vbox or \rightaligned, but this needs to be done for each table. Did I miss something important? Hello, you can define a macro. For example: \def\startMyMidAlignedTable{\hbox to

[NTG-context] Escaping tabulate

2005-07-14 Thread Radhelorn
Hello! I'm expirementing with tabular layouts and have many problems with tabulate. For example I want to make tabulate header of description but ConTeXt gives me errors about missing } and such. I is possible to make tabulate one big letter as in LaTeX and manipuate it as a whole? I haven't