[NTG-context] MetaPost in TABLEs ?

2010-04-11 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Hi all, In a book on construction engineering I found two kind of tables that presumably could be set very nicely in ConTeXt (see attachments). Set with MetaPost within natural tables? 1) Curly braces that span over cells: Their height should be depending to the cell's height (nr=2 oder

Re: [NTG-context] MetaPost in TABLEs ?

2010-04-11 Thread Hans Hagen
On 11-4-2010 3:25, Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Hi all, In a book on construction engineering I found two kind of tables that presumably could be set very nicely in ConTeXt (see attachments). Set with MetaPost within natural tables? 1) Curly braces that span over cells: Their height should be

Re: [NTG-context] MetaPost in TABLEs ?

2010-04-11 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Am 11.04.2010 um 17:51 schrieb Hans Hagen: On 11-4-2010 3:25, Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Hi all, In a book on construction engineering I found two kind of tables that presumably could be set very nicely in ConTeXt (see attachments). Set with MetaPost within natural tables? 1) Curly

Re: [NTG-context] MetaPost in TABLEs ?

2010-04-11 Thread Hans Hagen
On 11-4-2010 6:10, Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Thank you Hans! I can imagine that this fits on the first example. Do you also have an idea on the second case, the arrows from one table cell to another? (Does it has to be so complex as in metafun manual, page 140: 5.2 Anchors and layers??)

Re: [NTG-context] MetaPost in TABLEs ?

2010-04-11 Thread Vianney le Clément
use textbackgrounds ... instead of drawing lines you then do a textext that does a \left{ in math alongside a vbox that has the height of the lefgt boundary etc etc That would be really interesting for a project I'm working on (a songbook). I thought textbackgrounds could only put a color

Re: [NTG-context] MetaPost in TABLEs ?

2010-04-11 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Am 11.04.2010 um 18:31 schrieb Hans Hagen: On 11-4-2010 6:10, Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Thank you Hans! I can imagine that this fits on the first example. Do you also have an idea on the second case, the arrows from one table cell to another? (Does it has to be so complex as in metafun