[NTG-context] Split Table Desperation - again!

21 Jun 2006

      Hello,

While the recent modifications to the split table mechanisms provided by
Hans help me out with my most annoying monster table using the XML mapping
code below (see
http://www.idyll.org:8081/JohSite/context/p46-50_split_working.pdf/view for
the typeset table; clearly to much whitespace, but everything is typeset
and page boundaries are honored) and several other -smaller- tables in the
same tome (see
http://www.idyll.org:8081/JohSite/context/p45_unsplit_working.pdf/view for
a typeset example), one medium-sized table that clearly should not be split
gets split none the less (see
http://www.idyll.org:8081/JohSite/context/p162-163_unnecessary_split.pdf/vie...) ...
and I have no idea why.

Puzzled and helpless, Joh

XML mapping code:

% 'table' - table definition
\defineXMLnested
  [table]
  [lines=auto]
  {
    \defineXMLsave[floattitle]
    \defineXMLsave[caption]
    \defineXMLsave[header]
    \defineXMLsave[body]
    \defineXMLsave[footer]
  }
  {
    \splitfloat[lines=\XMLop{lines}]
      {
        \expanded{%
          \placetable
            [\XMLpar{table}{location}{}]
            [\XMLpar{table}{label}{unknown}]
            {\select{caption}{\XMLflush{floattitle}
{{\bf\XMLflush{floattitle}} \XMLflush{caption}}}
        }
      }
      {
        \setupTABLE[row][1][topframe=on]
        \setupTABLE[row][last][bottomframe=on]
\bTABLE[frame=off,split=repeat,splitmethod=b,style={\switchtobodyfont[small]\setupinterlinespace[line=2.8ex]}]
          \bTABLEhead\XMLflush{header}\eTABLEhead
          \bTABLEbody\XMLflush{body}\eTABLEbody
          \bTABLEfoot\XMLflush{footer}\eTABLEfoot
        \eTABLE
      }
  }

% 'td' - table cell definition defaulting to single row/column, automatic
width determination, left alignment
\defineXMLnested
  [td]
  [rows=1,cols=1,width=,bottomframe=,topframe=,align=right]
  {
    \doifelse{\XMLop{width}}{}%
      {
        \doifelse{\XMLop{bottomframe}}{}%
          {
            \doifelse{\XMLop{topframe}}{}%

{\expanded{\bTD[align=\XMLop{align},nr=\XMLop{rows},nc=\XMLop{cols}]}}

{\expanded{\bTD[align=\XMLop{align},topframe=\XMLop{topframe},nr=\XMLop{rows},nc=\XMLop{cols}]}}
          }
          {
            \doifelse{\XMLop{topframe}}{}%

{\expanded{\bTD[align=\XMLop{align},nr=\XMLop{rows},nc=\XMLop{cols},bottomframe=\XMLop{bottomframe}]}}

{\expanded{\bTD[align=\XMLop{align},nr=\XMLop{rows},nc=\XMLop{cols},bottomframe=\XMLop{bottomframe},topframe=\XMLop{topframe}]}}
          }
      }
      {
        \doifelse{\XMLop{bottomframe}}{}%
          {
            \doifelse{\XMLop{topframe}}{}%

{\expanded{\bTD[align=\XMLop{align},nr=\XMLop{rows},nc=\XMLop{cols},width=\XMLop{width}]}}

{\expanded{\bTD[align=\XMLop{align},nr=\XMLop{rows},nc=\XMLop{cols},width=\XMLop{width},topframe=\XMLop{topframe}]}}
          }
          {
            \doifelse{\XMLop{topframe}}{}%

{\expanded{\bTD[align=\XMLop{align},nr=\XMLop{rows},nc=\XMLop{cols},width=\XMLop{width},bottomframe=\XMLop{bottomframe}]}}

{\expanded{\bTD[align=\XMLop{align},nr=\XMLop{rows},nc=\XMLop{cols},width=\XMLop{width},bottomframe=\XMLop{bottomframe},topframe=\XMLop{topframe}]}}
          }
      }
  }
  {\par\eTD}

% 'tr' - table row definition, defaulting to no bottomframe
\defineXMLnested
  [tr]
  [bottomframe=,rulethickness=0.5pt]
  {\doifelse{\XMLop{bottomframe}}{}%
    {\expanded{\bTR}}%

{\expanded{\bTR[bottomframe=\XMLop{bottomframe},rulethickness=\XMLop{rulethickness}]}}
  }
  {\eTR}

[NTG-context] Split Table Desperation - again!

Johannes Graumann