Tables Overview

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ConTeXt has a whole bunch of possibilities to typeset tables. Not each provides everything you may need, and the older ones are deprecated.

Features:

Featuretabulatetable tablesTABLElinetable
horizonal lines \HL \HL \HL
\setupTABLE
[topframe=on]
or
\setupTABLE
[bottomframe=on]
vertical lines no \VL \VL
\setupTABLE
[leftframe=on]
or
\setupTABLE
[rightframe=on]
multipage yes no yes split=yes yes
repeated header no \starttablehead
\bTABLE
[split=repeat]
\bTABLEhead
...
\eTABLEhead
repeated footer no \starttabletail no
automatic fitting to given table width no \SetTableToWidth \SetTableToWidth no
problems
\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
documentation cont-enp.pdf, core-tbl.tex mp-cb-en.pdf, core-tab.tex core-tab.tex enattab.pdf, NaturalTables.pdf, core-ntb.tex core-ltb.tex