Quoting Johannes Graumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Aditya Mahajan wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> The question of how to get tables equivalent to latex's booktabs >> package has been discussed quite a few times in the past. Booktabs >> package provides (top|mid|bottom)rule commands and a cmidrule command. >> The top and bottom rules are 0.08em thick, the midrule is 0.05em thick, >> and the cmidrules are 0.03em thick. The cmidrules do not extend beyond >> the columns edge. Here is an example of how to do something similar >> using tables in context <http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Table#Booktabs>. >> >> To me this looks exactly similar to the example in the booktabs manual. >> Am I missing something, or is it fair to say that context can generate >> booktabs like tables?
> Hello, > > I'm one of the booktab-equivalent requesters and in my case the request is > motivated by the (sadly German-only) > http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/german/tabsatz/tabsatz.pdf > Please compare examples on pages 4 and 5 for the cmidrule functionality I'm > missing in ConTeXt. The clarity you can give classy looking tables with > trimmed cmidrules is even more evident in the example on page 9. There's > lots of more use of this in the document, but it gets too esoteric to be > easily grasped quickly (IMHO). Here is one attempt, which works correctly. Of course the best solution is to forget about the \omit and set the halign preamble correctly. But I have not been able to figure that out yet. \starttext \def\CMID{\normalTABLEshortrule} \unprotect \def\TableNC {\checkTABLEautorow \nextTABLEgrayline \ifnum\currentTABLEcolumn>\maxTABLEcolumn \setTABLEerror\TABLEmissingrow \handleTABLEerror \else \global\advance\currentTABLEcolumn \plusone \ifnum\currentTABLEcolumn=1\relax \normalTABLEquote \else \fancyTABLEquote \fi \fi} \def\fancyTABLEquote {\unskip\!ttRightGlue&\omit\hskip2em&} % " \protect \setuptables[rulethickness=0.03em] \starttable[s0|l|l|] \HL[3] \NC Monat \NC 1965 \NC 1966 \AR \NC \CMID \NC \CMID \NC \CMID \DR \NC September \NC 2000 \NC 1700 \AR \HL[3] \stoptable \stoptext Aditya ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : [email protected] / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
