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<br><div><div>On Feb 10, 2008, at 5:37 PM, Geoffrey S. Knauth wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">I want to make a table of definitions, for example:<div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><i>pomme de terre</i> potato</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><i>glace</i> ice cream</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><i>grenouille</i> frog</font></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>How do I do that with scribble commands?</div></blockquote><br></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>See struct.ss. Use @make-table with lists and flows, like this: </div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>@make-table['center]{</div><div> @list[@list[@make-flow{@list[@t{hello} @t{world} @t{bye} @t{boy}]}</div><div> @make-flow{@list[@t{1} @t{2} @t{3} @t{4}]}]]}</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>OR, which is what I was about to do: define a function in your document (which is a program after all) that consumes a bunch of stuff and arranges it for you </div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>@(define (table . stuff) ...)</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>-- Matthias</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div> </div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div></body></html>