Am 02.09.2012 um 17:59 schrieb Aditya Mahajan <adit...@umich.edu>: > Hi, > > On Edward Tufte's website, there is a discussion on zebra coloring in > tables[1]. One of the suggestion is to add a horizontal rule after every > third line or shade three lines with one background color and the remaining > three with another background color. > > Is there an easy way to do this with natural TABLEs? I can do something like: > > \setupTABLE[row][1,2,3][background=color, backgroundcolor=gray] > \setupTABLE[row][7,8,9][background=color, backgroundcolor=gray] > > but it requires knowing the number of lines in advance. > > Aditya > > [1]: http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0001IV
Natural tables have “odd” and “even” keywords for \setupTABLE but none in the way you like it. What I would do is to use a overlay in combination with metapost to create the background but there is no global register to access the current column/row of a cell, e.g. \currenttablecolumn (this name is already used by tables) and \currenttablerow. Wolfgang ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
