Re: [NTG-context] Newbie wants to make long tables

[Hans Hagen]

At 08:36 12/09/2003 +0100, you wrote:
Hans,
I have been looking at core-ntb (dangerous bend for me) and I found
[b|e]TABLEhead, [b|e]TABLEbody and [b|e]TABLEfoot. I then put 2 + 2 together
and made 5. It doesn't work as I expected. Are Table heads and foots
available? TABLEbody gives no output and TABLEhead and TABLEfoot just place
themselves at the end of table (head first, foot next) rather than at the
beginning and end of each column. One version of my test code is below;
\bTABLEhead
\bTR \bTH Head 1 \eTH \bTH Head 2 \eTH \eTR
\eTABLEhead
\bTABLEfoot
\bTR \bTH Foot 1 \eTH \bTH Foot 2 \eTH \eTR
\eTABLEfoot
\bTABLE[split=yes]
\dorecurse{40}{\bTR \bTD left \eTD\bTD right \eTD \eTR}
\eTABLE
I have been looking forward to this feature for some time. If you work on
it, it would be nice to have the middle table breaks to have their own heads
and foots such that one can put 'continued' etc. into the table.
the following will repeat the head,

\bTABLE[split=repeat]
\bTABLEhead
\bTR \bTH Head 1 \eTH \bTH Head 2 \eTH \eTR
\eTABLEhead
\bTABLEfoot
\bTR \bTH Foot 1 \eTH \bTH Foot 2 \eTH \eTR
\eTABLEfoot
\bTABLEbody
\dorecurse{40}{\bTR \bTD left \eTD\bTD right \eTD \eTR}
\eTABLEbody
\eTABLE
since foots often contain sums or so, they are not repeated,

we could consider something

\bMIDDLE
\eMIDDLE
but it would require some close re-reading of the source code since the 
available size calculation is tricky (unless we limit sucn a middle to a 
one liner

Hans
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