Question: Techniques for rendering tables well.

What are the best techniques/tools/functions for rendering tabular data in more human-friendly ways within the Maple graphical user interface?

Use Case

I work with large tables that would be too long to render completely in the interface, and doing so would not be an effective way to represent the data to readers of a Maple Document. However, rendering subsets of the data with headers, captions, colors, and footnotes would be beneficial. It would also be helpful to ensure each data type, such as dates, integers, and strings, was rendered appropriately. Ideally, the table would be rendered with sizing to fit the data rather than always the full width of the Maple Document.

Candidate Techniques

Subsetting the data seems to be straightforward by indexing against the underlying variable. However, the operations available to define the rendering are unclear.

I see that the "Maple 2024 Help" includes documentation for "DocumentTools,Layout,Table." This appears to be the function to focus on specifically, and the DocumentTools Package seems to be the Package where control over layout is provided. Is this the only Package and Function to focus on, or are there alternative techniques?

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