RE: Questions

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 04:06 PM 6/1/2000 +0200, Berend de Boer wrote:
>> Thanks. it can set the column width. But how can I place a long
>> table in four or file pages? just like the longtable package
>> does in latex?
>
>\starttabulate automatically breaks across pages (not always in exactly the
>line you sometimes want, but that's a minor issue).
>
>It does not float, so it starts right where you put it.

It can float, try:  

\setuplayout[height=5cm]

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

\splitfloat
  {\placetable{caption}}
  {\getbuffer}

[still a bit experimental btw]

Hans

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