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On 04/04/20 02:42, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
Hi,
when you use extreme tables without a float environment but repeat the header the table always starts on a new page.
%%%% begin example \starttext
\samplefile{weisman}
\blank
\startxtable[header=repeat,split=repeat] \startxtablehead \startxrow \startxcell Table head \stopxcell \stopxrow \stopxtablehead \startxtablebody \dorecurse{100}{\startxrow \startxcell Table body \stopxcell \stopxrow} \stopxtablebody \stopxtable
\stoptext %%%% end example
I use \starttext \startxtable [split=repeat,header=repeat,footer=repeat] \startbuffer [header] ... \stopbuffer \startxtablehead \getbuffer [header] \stopxtablehead \startxtablenext \getbuffer [header] \stopxtablenext \startxtablebody ... \stopxtablebody \startxtablefoot ... \stopxtablefoot \stopxtable \stoptext without a float environment, and I do NOT get a spurious page break, so I do not understand what is happening in your sample above. Is it the \break (as you suggest)? In your example above, why not simply use a float environment: \startplacetable [location=force,number=no] \startxtable ... \stopxtable \stopplacetable Supplementary question. How might I produce/impose a page break at a certain point in a long table? Say that I may want to provoke a break before a certain \startxrow...\stopxrow Thanks -- Alan