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authorHans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>2003-03-03 00:00:00 +0100
committerHans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>2003-03-03 00:00:00 +0100
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parent94506ae16cbb3851986ebf900316894301f46667 (diff)
downloadcontext-76c1d3fbb08e9b34c68f4b326b538f5802802500.tar.gz
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+++ b/tex/context/base/core-ltb.tex
@@ -15,7 +15,12 @@
\expandafter \endinput
\endTEX
-% Experimental, undocumented, and currently only ETeX.
+% This module is experimental, undocumented, and currently only set up
+% eTeX. It provides a mechanism for typesetting very large tables,
+% spanning many pages horizontally and vertically, with repeated
+% header lines and (entry) columns, tab tracking, color, etc. In does
+% two passes over a table, which is why the table goes into a
+% buffer or file. As said, tables can be real huge.
% \BH \BC .. \EC \BC .. \EC \EH % append
% \BR \BC .. \EC \BC .. \EC \ER
@@ -278,7 +283,7 @@
% forget about them
\else
\doifelse{\linetableparameter\c!regels}\v!passend
- {\scratchdimen\pagetotal}
+ {\scratchdimen\pagetotal}%
{\scratchdimen\zeropoint}%
\dorecurse\noflinetableparts
{\let\linetablepart\recurselevel
@@ -710,6 +715,8 @@
\doifnotmode{demo}{\endinput}
+% to be documented, see stan's ledger styles for an example
+
\setuplinetable[n=6,m={2,2,2},regels=25]
\setuplinetable[c][1][width=2cm,background=color,backgroundcolor=red]