Re: Splitting natural tables

["Christian" <metan0r@gmx.de>]

> >>> Hello,
> >>>
> >>> is it still not possible to split a table so that it covers one half
> >>> page an then
> >> another half page?
> >>>
> >>> It is my understanding that splitting moves the table to the next
> >>> page and
> >> then splits it to the following if it gets too long for one entire page.
> >>> Would a "manual split" be possible?
> >>>
> >>> Examle (table is not split, but could be):
> >>>
> >>> \starttext
> >>> \dorecurse{2}{\input knuth }
> >>> \startplacetable[title={My Table}]
> >>
> >> \startplacetable[location=split,title={My table}] … \stopplacetable
> >
> > Thank you Wolfgang!
> > For some reason I thought the option split=yes would trigger
> > splitting…
> 
> The “split=yes” option works only for table which aren’t aren't placed as float
> because this mechanism has to know that it has to break the table into parts
> but then you don’t need the split key for \bTABLE.
> 
> > Now in the sample document I get table 1a and table 1b.
> > In my "real" document I get table 3.2 and table 3.3. Is there a way to
> > influence this? (btw. captions are above the table, if that matters)
> 
> The location of the caption doesn’t matter. The number of the suffix for the
> subtables can be changed but without a example I can’t tell why you get
> different results in your example and in the real document.

My guess: It's because fo thecustom suffix. Example:

\setupcaption[table][location=top]
\setupcaptions[minwidth=\textwidth,width=fit,align=center,headstyle={\ss \tfx},style={\ss \tfx \setupinterlinespace[line=1.4em]},suffix={:},distance=.5em]
\starttext
\startchapter[title=Chapter]
\startsection[title=section]
\dorecurse{2}{\input knuth }
\startplacetable[title={My Table},location=split]
\bTABLE[option=stretch]
	\bTABLEhead
	\bTR
		\bTH C1 \eTH
		\bTH C2 \eTH
	\eTR
	\eTABLEhead
	\bTABLEbody
\dorecurse{20}{\bTR
		\bTD text \eTD
		\bTD text \eTD
	\eTR}
	\eTABLEbody	
\eTABLE
\stopplacetable
\input knuth
\stopsection
\stopchapter
\stoptext

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