[NTG-context] need help with creating a grid with context

2007-10-09 Thread MASON Peter J
I'm trying to layout a grid of bullets. The results isn't the expected one. Perhaps someone could offer help here? Thanks. Here's the sort of thing I'm doing \setuplayout[leftmargin=0pt, leftmargindistance=0pt, backspace=0pt, rightmargin=0pt, rightmargindistance=0pt, cutspace=0pt,

Re: [NTG-context] need help with creating a grid with context

2007-10-09 Thread MASON Peter J
Perhaps I ought to tell what I'm expecting :-) ... Hope to create a regular (1cm spacing) grid on page, of bullets. Ultimately over the whole page. The context code supplied produces successive rows with an offset to the right. Have I missed something obvious? IMPORTANT NOTICE: This e-mail

Re: [NTG-context] need help with creating a grid with context

2007-10-10 Thread MASON Peter J
You introduce spurious spaces (line break sometimes adds a space) in you loops. See ... Yes, you're right. A programmer, I tend to think that white space is always good for readability. Thanks for that tip. But I DO like the \dorecurse(...) version better. I didn't know of this macro. I

[NTG-context] natural tables - first row not gray

2007-04-04 Thread MASON Peter J
G'day, firstly thanks for your contextgarden.net website and the live-context facility. I checked my results against it. Could I seek help on this please. I'm expecting rows 2-4 of the table resulting from the segment below to have odd columns in rows 2-4 with white-on-black but all columns are

[NTG-context] spreading natural tables across the page

2007-04-04 Thread MASON Peter J
I'm trying to have my tables extend across the full (\textwidth) of the page. In LaTeX I was using tabular*, specifying a \textwidth for width, and with approp use of @{\extracolsep\fill}} bu am not having any success. Basically, in ConteXT I want odd columns to act as labels and be tight

Re: [NTG-context] natural tables - first row not gray

2007-04-09 Thread MASON Peter J
- first row not gray 2007/4/5, MASON Peter J [EMAIL PROTECTED]: G'day, firstly thanks for your contextgarden.net website and the live-context facility. I checked my results against it. Could I seek help on this please. I'm expecting rows 2-4 of the table resulting from the segment below

Re: [NTG-context] spreading natural tables across the page

2007-04-09 Thread MASON Peter J
natural tables across the page 2007/4/5, MASON Peter J [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm trying to have my tables extend across the full (\textwidth) of the page. In LaTeX I was using tabular*, specifying a \textwidth for width, and with approp use of @{\extracolsep\fill}} bu am not having any success