Re: [NTG-context] Tables for newbies [WAS Re: imbalanced columns]

2010-07-16 Thread Peter Münster
On Thu, Jul 15 2010, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote: Question for all: for MkIV, should we recommend ONLY natural tables to newcomers, e.g., in a ConTeXt Book? Hello Idris, For me, it's yes! But newcomers need to pay attention in some cases: - alignment (see issue

Re: [NTG-context] Tables for newbies [WAS Re: imbalanced columns]

2010-07-16 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
Hi Peter, On Fri, 16 Jul 2010 07:05:19 -0600, Peter Münster pmli...@free.fr wrote: On Thu, Jul 15 2010, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote: Question for all: for MkIV, should we recommend ONLY natural tables to newcomers, e.g., in a ConTeXt Book? Hello Idris, For me, it's yes!

Re: [NTG-context] Tables for newbies [WAS Re: imbalanced columns]

2010-07-16 Thread luigi scarso
2010/7/16 Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد isha...@colostate.edu Hi Peter, On Fri, 16 Jul 2010 07:05:19 -0600, Peter Münster pmli...@free.fr wrote: On Thu, Jul 15 2010, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote: Question for all: for MkIV, should we recommend ONLY natural tables to

[NTG-context] Tables for newbies [WAS Re: imbalanced columns]

2010-07-15 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
Hi Aditya, On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 11:37:32 -0600, Aditya Mahajan adit...@umich.edu wrote: Have you tried using natural tables. Now you can use them with almost the same amount of typing as the old table macros. \startTABLE \NC text 1 \NC text 2 \NC\NR \NC text 3 \NC text 4 \NC\NR \stopTABLE

Re: [NTG-context] Tables for newbies [WAS Re: imbalanced columns]

2010-07-15 Thread luigi scarso
2010/7/15 Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد isha...@colostate.edu Hi Aditya, On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 11:37:32 -0600, Aditya Mahajan adit...@umich.edu wrote: Have you tried using natural tables. Now you can use them with almost the same amount of typing as the old table macros. \startTABLE

Re: [NTG-context] Tables for newbies [WAS Re: imbalanced columns]

2010-07-15 Thread Hans Hagen
On 15-7-2010 7:45, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote: Hi Aditya, On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 11:37:32 -0600, Aditya Mahajan adit...@umich.edu wrote: Have you tried using natural tables. Now you can use them with almost the same amount of typing as the old table macros. \startTABLE \NC text