RE: longtable and tabularx in context

["Berend de Boer" <berend@pobox.com>]

Hai Wybo,

> Sure, that worked, partly. However, my table started near the end of
> the page, so I added [top] to \placefigure, supposing that context
> would decide to start it at top of the next page. Instead, it started
> on the *same* page, with the result that the *few* lines that
> initially fitted at the end were now (equally few) at the top. With
> the result that the floating table became interspersed with (large
> amounts of) normal text.

This is behaviour I like (and I think is to be expected).  You can force a
page break with \page[yes] (? \pagina[ja]).

> Are footnotes possible in tables? I tried, but a footnote between a
> non-floating \starttable appeared on the next page, and one in
> \splitfloat{}{\starttables... didn't appear at all, although its
> marker did.

You can set them below the table with \startlokalevoetnoten (probably
\startlocalfootnotes)  .. \stoplokalevoetnoten.

Groetjes,

Berend. (-: