Re: footnotes in ConteXt in table head

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 08:48 AM 12/24/00 +0100, Peter van Summeren wrote:

>I want to put footnotes the table heads in tabular flow in ConteXt. Now
>the footnotes come out double  at the end of the text (and not the
>page), and sometimes not at all.
>\starttabulate[|l|p|]
>\HL
>\NC \bf item1  \NC \bf item2 \footnote[]{bla, bla} \NC \NR
>\HL
>(etc)
>Any suggestions?
>with friendly greetings,

Footnotes kind of conflict with floating bodies since tex has to take them
into account when breaking a page. Another problem is that deeply buried
footnotes [inserts] don't migrate to the outer level. For this reason,
context postpones them in some circumstances [a few month ago i patched
this a bit]. 

For tables, a decent solution is to use local footnotes

\startlocalfootnotes
.....

\placefootnotes
\stoplocalfootnotes

You can then attach the notes to the table. Btw, the [] in your example is
redundant. 

Hans
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