[NTG-context] paragraphs in starttables

[Peter Münster]

On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Hans Hagen wrote:

> Peter Münster wrote:
> 
> > while playing around with starttables, footnotes and paragraphs in
> > starttables, I found some problems. Here is the first one, I would like to
> > get a paragraph in 2 columns:
> > 
> > \def\SomeText{\dorecurse{20}{hallo }}
> > \starttext
> > \starttables[s1|p(13em)|l|p(13em)|]
> > \VL \SomeText \VL xxx \VL \SomeText \postponefootnotes\footnote{a footnote}
> > \VL \AR
> > \VL \SomeText \VL
> > \TWO{Not ok, since too much distance to the line at the left.}\VL\AR
> > \VL \SomeText \VL xxx \VL \SomeText \VL \AR
> > \stoptables
> > \stoptext
> > 
> > \def\SomeText{\dorecurse{2}{hallo }}
> > \starttext
> > \starttables[s1|p(13em)|l|p(13em)|]
> > \VL \SomeText \VL xxx \VL \SomeText \postponefootnotes\footnote{a footnote}
> > \VL \AR
> > \VL \SomeText \VL
> > \TWO\JustLeft{\vtop{\setupinterlinespace\hsize 14em Better, but I need to
> >     calculate the hsize, and there are other workarounds for correct vertical
> >     spacing. Furthermore, the footnote is lost.\strut \blank[small]}}
> > \VL\AR
> > \VL \SomeText \VL xxx \VL \SomeText \VL \AR
> > \stoptables
> > \stoptext
> 
> hm, strange table; anyhow, how about:
> 
> \postponefootnotes \bTABLE

Yes, \bTABLE is nice too. Unfortunately, I need multi-page tables, table
head, table tail, vertical and horizontal lines at the same time.
I believe, the only table environment is \starttables, is this correct?

Besides, I get the following error with your code:

ERROR: Undefined control sequence.

--- TeX said ---
<argument> \@@tblprefix \c!each 
                                \v!each 

> btw, tabulate is the most clever with paragraphs

Yes, but not multi-page... :(

Greetings, Peter

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