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From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Split \starttabulates
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 20:28:18 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.02.1302102027170.1783@ybpnyubfg.ybpnyqbznva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44D79AB4-083E-417D-BCF9-965794223044@stien.de>

On Mon, 11 Feb 2013, Malte Stien wrote:

> 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:

\placetable and \startplacetable are equivalent. To be able to split 
floats, you need to specify the **split** option:

\starttext
\placetable[split,here][tab:ref]{Sometable}
   {\starttabulate[|w(.30\textwidth)p|w(.70\textwidth)p|]
     \HL
     \NC {\bf Animal} \NC {\bf Comment}  \NC\FR
     \HL
     \dorecurse{50}
     {\NC Cat     \NC Pretty cool         \NC\MR}
     \NC Bear    \NC Kind of lazy        \NC\MR
     \NC Sheep   \NC Always hungry       \NC\MR
     \HL
   \stoptabulate}
\stoptext

Aditya
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  reply	other threads:[~2013-02-11  1:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.350.1349253943.2084.ntg-context@ntg.nl>
2013-02-11  0:58 ` Malte Stien
2013-02-11  1:28   ` Aditya Mahajan [this message]
2013-02-11  5:06     ` Malte Stien
2012-10-03  6:28 Malte Stien
2012-10-03  7:16 ` Marco Patzer

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