Re: \setupTABLE commands?

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 09:00 PM 2/14/2003 -0500, Bruce D'Arcus wrote:

>On Friday, February 14, 2003, at 07:56  PM, Tomasz Kosinski wrote:
>
>>You can put all the setup commands in the header/preamble, but, as far
>>as I can tell, its position on the page is not one of the properties a
>>table can have. That is what you are looking for?
>
>Yes, and also the vertical spacing around the table.  Since I'm interested 
>in typesetting DocBook files, I'd like to avoid having to specify this 
>stuff locally (though maybe Simon has an elegant solution for these issues?).

you can do things like:

\definefloat [mytable] [mytables] [table]

\setupfloat[mytable][default={leftmargin,high,none},spacebefore=none,spaceafter=none]

\placemytable{}{\getbuffer}

(assuming that the table is in the buffer)

Hans
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