Problems with wide floating tables in context mkIV

Problems with wide floating tables in context mkIV

[Massimiliano Lambertini]

Hello, all

Maybe this problem has been already addressed before, but I didn't find 
anything about it in contextgarden and ML archives. So, here you are.

I have a document laid out in two columns, and some wide tables laid out 
using Natural Tables syntax. These tables are then placed on the 
document this way:

\placetable[top][table-1020]{Intersystem Travel 
Times}{\getbuffer[tablebuffer-id]}

When I compile my files using XeTeX engine, the table is placed at the 
top of the page, spanning two columns. When I use the LuaTeX engine, the 
table is placed in the middle of a column and cut off by its page margin 
or overwritten by the neighbouring column text.

I define column sections by using the \startcolumns...\stopcolumns 
directives. Do I have to switch to columnsets?

A sample of the problem I depicted here can be found at:

http://www.lambertini.org/testfloats.zip .

The zip file contains two pdf (one compiled with XeTeX, another with 
LuaTeX) and the TeX source.

Thanks in advance for your responses,

Massimiliano Lambertini
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Re: Problems with wide floating tables in context mkIV

[Massimiliano Lambertini]

Massimiliano Lambertini wrote:
> Hello, all
>
> Maybe this problem has been already addressed before, but I didn't 
> find anything about it in contextgarden and ML archives. So, here you 
> are.
Forgot some details about my tex/context distribution:

I use w32tex Tex distribution on  Windows.

Context is 2009.11.07 version
Luatex is  0.45.0-2009111922

Greetings,
Max
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Re: Problems with wide floating tables in context mkIV

[luigi scarso]

On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Massimiliano Lambertini
<nof0125@iperbole.bologna.it> wrote:
> Hello, all
>
> Maybe this problem has been already addressed before, but I didn't find
> anything about it in contextgarden and ML archives. So, here you are.
>
> I have a document laid out in two columns, and some wide tables laid out
> using Natural Tables syntax. These tables are then placed on the document
> this way:
>
> \placetable[top][table-1020]{Intersystem Travel
> Times}{\getbuffer[tablebuffer-id]}
>
> When I compile my files using XeTeX engine, the table is placed at the top
> of the page, spanning two columns. When I use the LuaTeX engine, the table
> is placed in the middle of a column and cut off by its page margin or
> overwritten by the neighbouring column text.
>
> I define column sections by using the \startcolumns...\stopcolumns
> directives. Do I have to switch to columnsets?
Can be a problem of mkiv,
it does not work even with
\stopcolumns
\placetable[top][t-1020]{Intersystem Travel Times}{\getbuffer[ta-1020]}

\startcolumns
\dorecurse{2}{\input zapf}
\dorecurse{2}{\input tufte}
\dorecurse{2}{\input zapf}
\dorecurse{2}{\input tufte}
\stopcolumns

\stoptext


It works in mkii with
# texexec floats.tex
-- 
luigi
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