From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/5544 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: e_w_g@t-online.de (Eckhart =?iso-8859-1?Q?Guth=F6hrlein?=) Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: multicolumn in floating objects? Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2001 09:22:55 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20010908085006.00a8a668@pop.t-online.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035396131 2584 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:02:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:02:11 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: ConTeXt mailing list Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:5544 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:5544 I have a very narrow table with a natural height of approximately 1.25\makeupheight. What I would like to do is: - split it in 3 columns - put the whole thing in a float - give it a single caption With tabulate, splitting with \startcolumns works fine, nicely distributed over 3 columns using the minimum of tatal vertical space. First I tried to simply put it a \placetable: no error message (wow), but no splitting, either. Furthermore, I would prefer to use \starttables, because I need heads/tails. Or is it possible to set up repeating heads for tabulate (I found only \starttablehead in the archive)? But, with \starttables, each column is filled until the bottom of the page is reached before a new column is started, resulting into an empty third and a half-full second column in my case. (And no split inside floats, either.) I didn't succeed in making tables believe that vsize is xxx, how can this be done? And then, how to make the whole thing a single float? I experimented with \splitfloat. This seems to work well with tabulate. But it does not really float, does it? As far as I have observed, it starts where it occurs in the text, extending to the next page if necessary. Currently, I have put the \startcolumns / tabulate into an extra file, converted it to eps and included as \externalfigure. Not very nice and nasty if changes are necessary, so I would be grateful for a better solution, if there is any. Eckhart