Option margin with \placeblock

Option margin with \placeblock

[Berend de Boer]

Hello All,

I tried to put a tabel in the margin, it did, but on the top of the page. Is
this option not working any more or is this by design? I want it next to my
text (if possible).

Groetjes,

Berend. (-:

Re: Option margin with \placeblock

[Hans Hagen]

At 07:36 PM 5/20/2000 +0200, Berend de Boer wrote:
>Hello All,
>
>I tried to put a tabel in the margin, it did, but on the top of the page. Is
>this option not working any more or is this by design? I want it next to my
>text (if possible).

Everything that does not work the way you want is of course by design -) 

There are two mechanisms: 

\startbuffer
\starttabulate[|||]
\NC test \NC test \NC \NR 
\NC test \NC test \NC \NR
\stoptabulate

\placetable[margin][tab:hm]{a useless table}{\getbuffer}

puts the table indeed in the margin, starting at the top. Actually this is
a separate layer. To be improved, etc etc. BTW, while testing I found out
that two succesive ones have suboptimal spacing. Is corrected. 

What you want is: 

\placetable[inleft][tab:hm]{a useless table}[\getbuffer]

Again, I found out that the spacing is suboptimal, so I patched it. I'll
send you the few lines needed. The [inmargin] directive produces some []
which is due to a low level change that never was reflected in this
particular macro. Repaired. 

So, you found me one bug and two ugly spacings. All repaired I hope.  

Hans

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