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From: Marco <netuse@lavabit.com>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Nested floats
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012 14:29:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120310142941.429d6493@homerow> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F5A31EB.40209@gmail.com>

On 2012-03-09 Prashanth <prash.n.rao@gmail.com> wrote:

> I need to create some small tables that are (possibly) next to each other.
> Though I could make text flow around tables and appear to the left or
> to the right of the table, I could not manage something like this:

I would use combinations for that (see example below).

> So I tried to use nested floats to achieve this

Nesting floats is not a good idea.

> (floats because I want each to have its own number and title).

There are other ways to achieve that.


\setupheads [chapter] [page=no]

\startbuffer
  \bTABLE [frame=off, align=center]
    \bTR \bTD abc \eTD \bTD def \eTD \eTR
    \bTR \bTD ghi \eTD \bTD jkl \eTD \eTR
  \eTABLE
\stopbuffer

\starttext

\startchapter [title=First]
  \startsection [title=1st Section]
    \startplacetable
      \startcombination [2*1]
        {\getbuffer} {(a)}
        {\getbuffer} {(b)}
      \stopcombination
    \stopplacetable
  \stopsection
\stopchapter

\startchapter [title=Second]
  \startplacetable [location=right]
    \setupcombination [distance=2cm]
    \startcombination [2*2]
      {\getbuffer} {(a)}
      {\getbuffer} {(b)}
      {\getbuffer} {(c)}
      {\getbuffer} {(d)}
    \stopcombination
  \stopplacetable
  \input knuth
\stopchapter

\stoptext


Marco


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  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-10 13:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-09 16:38 Prashanth
2012-03-10 13:29 ` Marco [this message]
2012-03-10 22:21   ` Prashanth
2012-03-10 13:49 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2012-03-10 14:47   ` Marco
2012-03-10 22:33   ` Prashanth
2012-03-11  8:57     ` Wolfgang Schuster
2012-03-12 21:55       ` Hans Hagen

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