From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Fwd: Re: aligning a table alignment with local footnotes
Date: Tue, 30 May 2017 00:59:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <520ee356-f707-af04-b49c-e55c9136b27b@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <352d56f3-a8d4-5e31-ba5b-14f77fa1acdc@wxs.nl>
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Subject: Re: [NTG-context] aligning a table alignment with local footnotes
Date: Tue, 30 May 2017 00:58:47 +0200
From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: Alan Bowen <bowenalan03@gmail.com>
On 5/30/2017 12:33 AM, Alan Bowen wrote:
> What is the best way to center a table and control/fix the textwidth of
> the local footnotes?
>
> I currently have:
>
> \starttext
>
> \startbuffer[Tab01]
> \startlocalfootnotes
> \bTABLE
> \bTR\bTD So\eTD\bTD what%
> \footnote{\input knuth} % <=
> \eTD\eTR
> \eTABLE
> {\placelocalfootnotes}
> \stoplocalfootnotes
> \stopbuffer
>
> \startplacetable[title=Test,
> align=middle]
> {\getbuffer[Tab01]}
> \stopplacetable
>
> \stoptext
>
> If the footnote is commented out, the table is centered (as I want it).
> With the footnote, the table is flushleft. I have managed to get what I
> need by defining the \hsize of the footnotes and tweaking the loffset of
> the table. But a general, less “empirical” approach would be vastly better.
\starttext
\startbuffer[Tab01]
\startlocalfootnotes
\setbox\scratchbox\vbox{\bTABLE
\bTR\bTD So\eTD\bTD what\footnote{\input knuth}\eTD\eTR
\eTABLE}%
\hsize\wd\scratchbox
\box\scratchbox
\par
\placelocalfootnotes
\stoplocalfootnotes
\stopbuffer
\startplacetable[title=Test,align=middle]{\getbuffer[Tab01]}
\stopplacetable
\stoptext
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-29 22:33 Alan Bowen
[not found] ` <352d56f3-a8d4-5e31-ba5b-14f77fa1acdc@wxs.nl>
2017-05-29 22:59 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2017-05-30 13:34 ` Alan Bowen
2017-05-30 1:05 ` Aditya Mahajan
2017-05-30 13:37 ` Alan Bowen
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