At 12:48 AM 4/19/2002 +1000, you wrote:
>On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Hans Hagen wrote:
> > At 10:12 PM 4/18/2002 +1000, Daniel Pittman wrote:
> >
> >>I know that the 'f' is the symbolic name of the position and that 'x'
> >>is the predefined background mentioned above. I couldn't work out
> >>exactly what the set of macros for defining points did, though.
> >
> > indeed it's specifying symbolic names and begin/end points; this
> > permits spanning cells in quite strange ways.
>
>Yes. If I ever need to do a more complex graphical table thing, this
>will be incredibly useful. It's been good to try and work it out. :)
>
>[...]
>
> >>Finally, as I mentioned, trying to read the source to better
> >>understand those macros made my brain melt. The ConTeXt sources scare
> >>me occasionally -- there is /so/ much magic in there...
> >
> > be warned: most of the source is not meant for reading
>
>I figure that it's the thing to do between reading the documentation and
>asking on the mailing list -- about a third of the time it answers my
>question, often because there are examples in the source.
>
>So, if I didn't try then you would be even more bombarded by questions
>than you are now. For example:
>
>Is there any way to specify the inter-cell spacing of two columns when
>using the bTABLE/eTABLE interface?
>
>I tried the 'distance' argument to bTD but, sadly, it didn't work.
no, on the to do list, but you can play with
frameoffset=-3pt
and alike
>I also noted that this didn't do anything -- but didn't generate any
>message. Should I expect an error if I give an illegal argument to a
>ConTeXt command, at least in general?
i will implement that once my computer hits the 10 GHz boundary
Hans
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