|
Feature
|
Tabulate
|
Table
deprecated
)
/
Tables deprecated
|
Natural tables with TABLE
|
Extreme tables with xtable
|
Linetable (deprecated)
|
framedtable
|
|
horizonal lines
|
\HL |
\HL |
\setupTABLE
[topframe=on]
or
\setupTABLE
[bottomframe=on]
|
\setupxtable[...] |
unknown |
yes |
|
vertical lines
|
\VL |
\VL |
\setupTABLE
[leftframe=on]
or
\setupTABLE
[rightframe=on]
|
\setupxtable[...] |
unknown |
yes |
|
multipage
|
yes |
no / yes (tables) |
yes, with split=yes or split=repeat |
vertically yes, horizontally not but planned |
yes, even horizontally |
yes |
|
repeated header
|
\setuptabulate
[header=repeat]
\starttabulatehead
...
\stoptabulatehead
only one line |
tables only:
\setuptables
[split=repeat]
\starttablehead
...
\stoptablehead
|
\bTABLE
[split=repeat]
\bTABLEhead
...
\eTABLEhead
|
yes |
yes |
yes |
|
repeated footer
|
no |
tables only:
\setuptables
[split=repeat]
\starttabletail
...
\stoptabletail
|
no? |
yes |
no |
unknown |
|
automatic fitting to given table width
|
no |
\SetTableToWidth |
\setupTABLE
[option=stretch,
textwidth=10cm]
|
yes |
default |
unknown |
|
problems
|
very limited |
some limitations, problems with spacing
\starttext
\starttablehead
\HL
\stoptablehead
\starttables[|l|l|]
\dorecurse{50}{
\VL SomeText
\VL SomeText
\VL \AR}
\stoptables
Problem: top margin on
first page is bigger.
\stoptext
|
there may be problems in width and height calculation and perhaps the multipage features |
very verbose |
lack of documentation, just experimental |
limitations, lack of documentation |
|
documentation (except wiki)
|
contextref.pdf, tabl-tbl.mkii, MAPS article |
ms-cb-en.pdf, tabl-tab.mkii |
enattab.pdf, NaturalTables.pdf, tabl-ntb.mkii / tabl-ntb.mkiv |
xtables-mkiv.pdf, tabl-xtb.lua |
tabl-ltb.mkii / tabl-ltb.mkiv |
? |