I apologize to the list for the second message. My keyboard and trackpad have gone sticky and unpredictable, and I misfired.

The message below (the first message) is the one that I wanted to send. Please ignore the second.

A.

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> From: Bowen Alan C. <acbowen@Princeton.EDU>
> Date: 11 23, 2009 17:26:37 EST
> To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
> Subject: Re: [NTG-context] local footnote (Tables) problem
> 
> Wolfgang—
> 
> I have switched the minimal example to tabulate. The problem is that this entails little progress because I can find no documentation that explains
> (a) how to format (e.g., center) the content of specific cells---\REF does not seem to work any more.
> (b) how to get weighted rules---\HL[3] no longer works
> (c) how to avoid getting the label for the table on the first page
> (d) how to get a decent page break.
> I have checked Hans' MAPs article as we all as the wiki. There is reference to a new tabulate module that you were working on, but the link goes nowhere.
> 
> I can work around (a) and (b) if I have to, but (c) and (d) are crucial.
> 
> Alan
> 
> 
> \showframe
> 
> \starttext
> 
> \dorecurse{3}{\input knuth\par}
> 
> \start
> 
> \setuptabulate
> [bodyfont=9pt,
> width=\textwidth,
> rulethickness=0.03em,
> distance=big,
> split=yes
> header=repeat]
> 
> \placetable
> [split, top,nonumber]
> [tab:Table03]
> {Table 3}
> {\startlocalfootnotes[conversion=character,bodyfont=9pt]
> \placelegend
> {\startframedtext[frame=off,offset=none,width=fit]
>  \starttabulatehead
>   \HL
>   \NC {Column A} \NC {Column B} \NC\SR
>   \HL
>   \stoptabulatehead
>   \starttabulate[|p(11.5pc)|p(11.5pc)|]
>   \NC {1[4].341||345 [= F21.82||86]} \NC{6.29.3||4} \NC\SR
>   \NC Text A\note[a]                        \NC Text B\note[b]    \NC\SR
>  \NC \input knuth                        \NC 	\NC\AR
> \NC                         \NC \input knuth	\NC\AR
>     \NC \input knuth                        \NC 	\NC\AR
>   \stoptabulate
>   \stopframedtext}
>  {\footnotetext[a]{A local footnote.}
>   \footnotetext[b]{Another local footnote.}
>   \hskip2pc\mbox{\placelocalfootnotes}}
> \stoplocalfootnotes}
> 
> \stop
> 
> \stoptext
> 
> On Nov 23, 2009, at 02;51,46 , Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Am 23.11.2009 um 08:49 schrieb Taco Hoekwater:
>> 
>>> it seems that TaBlE does not support splitting p() columns and
>>> (iirc) TABLE does.
>> 
>> TABLE doesn't (each cell is a \framed) but tabulate does
>> 
>> Wolfgang
>> 
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