Re: Tables query (notes, MKII)

["Bowen Alan C." <acbowen@Princeton.edu>]

Thanks, Willi. I am now using the very latest ConTeXt minimals and  
find that setting width=fit works too.

All best, Alan
On Jun 11, 2009, at 11;05,47 , Willi Egger wrote:

> Hi Alan,
>
> I tried your code. Here with the latest beta and minimals from  
> 11-06-2009 MKIV: I get the footnotes at the left margin and they  
> will fill the whole width of the table and break lines correctly.  
> However the conversion of the numbers into characters does not work.  
> Instead the [conversion=characters] is displayed at the top of the  
> file. - I assume, that this is an issue related to the new  
> sectioning code...
>
> Otherwise compliation of your code in MKII results in a correct  
> conversion of the numbers to characters, but indeed the width is  
> restricted to a fairly small column. You can circumvent this by  
> adding a width= to the list of options [conversion=characters, width= 
> \.9\textwidth]
>
> Kind regards
>
> Willi
> On Jun 9, 2009, at 5:43 PM, Bowen Alan C. wrote:
>
>> I need a table that has local notes, but have not been able to get  
>> them into the proper position (at the left margin of the table) or   
>> the the proper length ( extending full length of table if needed).  
>> What am I missing in the following reduced example?
>>
>> \starttext
>>
>> \startlocalfootnotes[conversion=character]
>> \placetable[][]
>> {}
>> \placelegend
>> {\starttables[|p|p|p|p|p|p|]
>> \NC numbers	
>> 	\NC (*) \footnote{This is the first footnote.}
>> 	\NC stuff \footnote{This is the second footnote.}	
>> 	\NC stuff\footnote{This is the third footnote.}
>> 	\NC more stuff\footnote{This is the fourth footnote}	
>> 	\NC and yet more	\NC\SR
>> \HL
>> \stoptables}
>> {\placelocalfootnotes}
>> \stoplocalfootnotes
>>
>> \stoptext
>>
>> Alan
>>
>>
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