Re: longtable and tabularx in context

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Wybo Dekker wrote:

> Sure, that worked, partly. However, my table started near the end of
> the page, so I added [top] to \placefigure, supposing that context

The savest way to handle that is to surround that what should go to the
top of the next page by 

\startpostponing
whatever 
\stoppostponing

> I downloaded the manual (4.4 MB) from the context download page, but
> it says nothing about starttabellen or starttabulate. The tran-script
> doesn't know about starttabulate. So where do I find this beta manual?

tabulate is a composed command the beta manual is at the beta page at
our site

quicky: www.pragma-ade.nl/beta.htm 

> Are footnotes possible in tables? I tried, but a footnote between a
> non-floating \starttable appeared on the next page, and one in
> \splitfloat{}{\starttables... didn't appear at all, although its
> marker did.

Footnotes are trouble makers. Their showing up depend on tex's mood, in
the sense that when buried to deep, they (actually any insert) will
never show up. 

%D \start 
%D \startlocalfootnotes[breedte=.3\hsize,n=0]
%D   \plaatstabel
%D     {Some Table}
%D     \plaatsonderelkaar
%D       {\starttabel[|l|r|]
%D        \HL
%D        \VL Nota\voetnoot{Bene} \VL Bene\voetnoot{Nota} \VL\SR
%D        \VL Bene\voetnoot{Nota} \VL Nota\voetnoot{Bene} \VL\SR
%D        \HL
%D        \stoptabel}
%D       {\placelocalfootnotes}
%D \stoplocalfootnotes
%D \stop

This is one way out. With splits ... I never tested this but I fear it
does not work, although \placelocalfootnotes let them show up, so you
can use that one to put them somewhere. 

Like columns, footnotes (inserts actually) are the weakest parts of tex. 

Hans

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