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From: Wolfgang Schuster <wolfgang.schuster.lists@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>,
	Sylvain Hubert <champignoom@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: page ends with a section title followed by a table
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2020 18:25:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <74860844-b1fd-af11-e798-2e25ad88dce3@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACNy3NAEW9JuVK-h=OtTGaO8iE3Jh2SpnRW16PPmkcUgdR=CYw@mail.gmail.com>

Sylvain Hubert schrieb am 10.11.2020 um 18:06:

> Thanks for the suggestion, but as illustrated by the second example, 
> copied here, where the section title is at the top of the page:
> 
>      \starttext
>      \showframe
>      \dorecurse{50}{a }
>      \startsection[title=spec][before={\blank[preference,big]}, 
> after={\blank[samepage,big]}]

Your settings in the second argument of \startsection make no sense
because the optional argument is for userdata (values like author etc.)

>      \startxtable
>      \startxrow
>      \startxcell[ny=30]a\stopxcell\startxcell 1\stopxcell
>      \stopxrow
>      \dorecurse{29}{\startxrow\startxcell 2\stopxcell\stopxrow}
>      \stopxtable
>      \stoptext
> 
> it is sometimes difficult to predict how much remaining space should 
> trigger a line break.

You can either reformat your table or put the table in a float
environment to move it to a place where it fits.

Wolfgang

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-11-10 17:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-10  8:55 Sylvain Hubert
2020-11-10 14:59 ` Pablo Rodriguez
2020-11-10 16:11   ` Sylvain Hubert
2020-11-10 16:23     ` Sylvain Hubert
2020-11-10 16:36       ` Pablo Rodriguez
2020-11-10 16:57         ` Sylvain Hubert
2020-11-10 16:52   ` Wolfgang Schuster
2020-11-10 17:06     ` Sylvain Hubert
2020-11-10 17:25       ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]
2020-11-10 18:11         ` Sylvain Hubert
2020-11-10 18:23           ` Wolfgang Schuster
2020-11-10 18:41             ` Sylvain Hubert
2020-11-10 20:55               ` Aditya Mahajan

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