Tables

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• Natural tables with TABLE the recommended way (similar to HTML tables)
• Tabulate tabulation can be use for simple requirements

• Creating booktabs-like tables

How-to guides are directions that guide the reader through a problem or towards a result. How-to guides are goal-oriented.

• Extreme tables with xtable (mostly compatible to natural tables, better for page breaking)
• Floats
  • Tutorials about floats and captions
  • Floating objects details to position and number tables.

• If you have simple tables with lots of contents, and you're tired of typing \bTR\bTDs or \NC\NRs, you can also have a look at:
  • Database module and its manual File:csv.pdf.
  • Wikitable, a TABLE wrapper that uses MediaWiki syntax

• Overview of table environments features
• Wiki pages in Tables category

Explanation is a discursive treatment of a subject, that permits reflection. Explanation is understanding-oriented.

• 
  Natural Tables in ConTEXt – Examples (2024)
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  Extreme Tables in ConTeXt MkIV (2018)
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  Simple Spreadsheets in ConTeXt MkIV (2016)

Reference guides are technical descriptions of the machinery and how to operate it. Reference material is information-oriented.

• Command categories
  • Tables