[NTG-context] 2NUP, spreading a table on 2 pages

[Antoine Junod]

Hi,

Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang at googlemail.com> writes:

> Am 20.01.2009 um 09:20 schrieb Antoine Junod:
>
>> Hello List,
>>
>> I'm trying to design a little booklet on the form two A5 pages on a A4
>> sheet. It's not hard to do as it is well documented.
>>
>> The problem is the following: I would like to add a table (actually a
>> people list with firstname, lastname, mobile, address and so on and so
>> on) that is quite wide. The idea is to put it on a double page (ie,
>> when you open the booklet, the table is on both the left and the right
>> page).
>>
>> The easy way would be to 1) manually cut the table in two tables (a
>> left one and a right one) that fit on a page and 2) to put them each
>> on their own page, beeing sure the left one is on a left page. Here,
>> the difficulty is to align both tables accross the pages.
>
>
> How about linetables?
>
> \setuplinetable[nx=2,width=.125\textwidth]
>
> \starttext
>
> \startlinetable
> \NC firstname \NC lastname \NC phone       \NC mobile      \NC postal
> code \NC city    \NC address        \NC\NR
> \NC John      \NC Jonhsons \NC 0800/987654 \NC 0171/123456 \NC  12345
> \NC New TeX \NC Meta street 12 \NC\NR
> \stoplinetable
>
> \stoptext

Excellent, thanks Wolfgang. It exactly matches my needs :)

All the best,
-AJ