footnotes in ConteXt in table head

footnotes in ConteXt in table head

[Peter van Summeren]

Hello,
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,
Peter van Summeren

Re: footnotes in ConteXt in table head

[Hans Hagen]

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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