Thanks for this too, Aditya. I have some tables that this may work very
well with.

All best, Alan


On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 9:05 PM, Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu> wrote:

> On Mon, 29 May 2017, 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
>>
>
> I usually use:
>
> \startplacetable
> \hbox{\startplacelegend[location=bottom]
>    \startcontent
>      TABLE
>    \stopcontent
>    \startcaption
>      footnote
>    \stopcaption
> \stopplacelegend}
> \stopplacetable
>
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