Am 16.10.2012 um 13:08 schrieb Hans Hagen <pra...@wxs.nl>: > On 16-10-2012 12:52, Sietse Brouwer wrote: >> The problem is that \starttabulate does not accept a format parameter. >> >> Cheap solution (only figured it out now, or I'd have replied before): use >> >> \setuptabulate[alpha][format={....}] >> >> before every \startalpha call. >> It's not very contexty syntax, but on the other hand it requires no >> new definitions at all. >> >> Full example below. >> Cheers, >> Sietse >> >> \definetabulate[alpha][|l|] % dummy format >> \setuptabulate[alpha][style=bold] >> >> \setuptabulate[alpha][format={|r|r|r|}] >> \startalpha >> \NC r \NC r \NC r \NC \NR >> \NC test \NC test \NC test \NC \NR >> \stopalpha >> >> \setuptabulate[alpha][format={|c|c|}] >> \startalpha >> \NC c \NC c \NC \NR >> \NC test \NC test \NC \NR >> \stopalpha > > There's also: > > \starttext > > \definetabulate > [whatever] > [|l|r|] > > \definetabulate > [whatever][else] > [|l|c|r|] > > \startwhatever > \NC l \NC r \NC \NR > \NC left \NC right \NC \NR > \stopwhatever > > \startwhatever[else] > \NC l \NC m \NC r \NC \NR > \NC left \NC middle \NC right \NC \NR > \stopwhatever > > \stoptext
Can you add a second argument to custom tabulation which would allow one to write \startwhatever[format={…}] or \startwhatever[else][format={…}] to change the number of columns and format for a certain table. 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________