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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