Re: [NTG-context] Nested floats

10 Mar 2012


      On 2012-03-09 Prashanth  wrote:
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I need to create some small tables that are (possibly) next to each other.
Though I could make text flow around tables and appear to the left or
to the right of the table, I could not manage something like this:
I would use combinations for that (see example below).
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So I tried to use nested floats to achieve this
Nesting floats is not a good idea.
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(floats because I want each to have its own number and title).
There are other ways to achieve that.


\setupheads [chapter] [page=no]

\startbuffer
  \bTABLE [frame=off, align=center]
    \bTR \bTD abc \eTD \bTD def \eTD \eTR
    \bTR \bTD ghi \eTD \bTD jkl \eTD \eTR
  \eTABLE
\stopbuffer

\starttext

\startchapter [title=First]
  \startsection [title=1st Section]
    \startplacetable
      \startcombination [2*1]
        {\getbuffer} {(a)}
        {\getbuffer} {(b)}
      \stopcombination
    \stopplacetable
  \stopsection
\stopchapter

\startchapter [title=Second]
  \startplacetable [location=right]
    \setupcombination [distance=2cm]
    \startcombination [2*2]
      {\getbuffer} {(a)}
      {\getbuffer} {(b)}
      {\getbuffer} {(c)}
      {\getbuffer} {(d)}
    \stopcombination
  \stopplacetable
  \input knuth
\stopchapter

\stoptext


Marco