Re: Split \starttabulates

* Re: Split \starttabulates
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@ 2013-02-11  0:58 ` Malte Stien
  2013-02-11  1:28   ` Aditya Mahajan
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Malte Stien @ 2013-02-11  0:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: ntg-context

Hello,

This is a bit old now, but I would like to come back to it. First of all, Marco, thank you for your response. I did try it and it does work. However, I seem to be loosing other things like adjusting the table width; things that \placetable provides.

\placetable also has the advantage that I don't have to wrap it around my tables, it just appears at the beginning, not the end. A couple of points:

- I tried to find some documentation about \startplacetable… \stopplacetable to see how I could enforce the width and generally to see what options there were. I could not find any, not even in the source code. How is this pair defined?

- I also tried to find out the overall problem with \placetable. According to this page here: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Floating_Objects the split option should work, but for TABLEs only. So, I think this does not work for me because I am using TABULATE, right? The split function in \setuptabulate works as well, but only if the table is not inserted using \placetable, that is as a float. So, \placetable knows how to split a TABLE but not a TABULATE although \starttabulate… \stoptabulate knows how to split itself. Is that right? But if it is not inserted as a float, I do not get a caption and I cannot refer to my table later on, right? There seem to be different ways of doing this, all of which miss out on some fine detail I need them to do. So, after all that rumbling, I guess, I am asking...

…is there another way of:
- placing a TABULATE table such that it has a caption that I can refer to;
- split the TABULATE table across multiple pages;
- and control the width of the TABULATE table.

Thank you,
Malte.

On 03/10/2012, at 6:45 PM, ntg-context-request@ntg.nl wrote:

> Hi Malte
> 
>> \placetable[here][tab:some-table]{Some Table}
>> \starttabulate[|w(.30\textwidth)p|w(.70\textwidth)p|]
>> \HL
>> \NC {\bf Animal} \NC {\bf Comment}	\NC\FR
>> \HL
>> \NC Cat	\NC Pretty cool		\NC\MR
>> \NC Bear	\NC Kind of lazy	\NC\MR
>> \NC Sheep	\NC Always hungry	\NC\MR
>> \HL
>> \stoptabulate
>> 
>> However, I need one of these tables to split over adjacent pages, which according to the documentation should be achievable with
>> 
>> \setuptabulate[split=yes]
>> 
>> However, that does not seem to work in connection with the \placetable line.
> 
> \startplacetable [title=Some Table, reference=tab:some-table, location={split,here}]
>  \starttabulate[|w(.30\textwidth)p|w(.70\textwidth)p|]
>    \HL
>    \NC {\bf Animal} \NC {\bf Comment}	\NC\FR
>    \HL
>    \NC Cat	\NC Pretty cool		\NC\MR
>    \NC Bear	\NC Kind of lazy	\NC\MR
>    \NC Sheep	\NC Always hungry	\NC\MR
>    \HL
>  \stoptabulate
> \stopplacetable
> 
> Marco

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