Re: longtable and tabularx in context

[Wybo Dekker <wybo@servalys.hobby.nl>]

Hans Hagen wrote:
> 
> Wybo Dekker wrote:
>  
> > 1: I'm trying to find out how to make long tables (several pages) in
> >    context. The table manual tells me to add u in the \BeginTable
> >    command. But if I add that one to \starttable is doesn't recognize
> >    it.
> 
> Use \starttables \stoptables instead. You can also say: 
> 
> \splitfloat
>   {\placefigure{caption}}
>   {whatever to be split} 

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. 

> or: 
> 
> \startbuffer
> \startables[preamble]
> \stoptables
> \stopbuffer
> 
> \splitfloat{\placefigure{caption}}{\getbuffer}
> 
> Subnumbers are automatically appended. See core-tab.tex (of beta manual)
> for more info. 

I downloaded the manual (4.4 MB) from the context download page, but
it says nothing about starttabellen or starttabulate. The tran-script
doesn't know about starttabulate. So where do I find this beta manual?

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.

Hartelijke groet, Wybo
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