Re: [NTG-context] weird issue with xtable

On 13 Aug 2020, at 13:07, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:

Dear list,

in order to avoid a problem already reported (https://mailman.ntg.nl/pipermail/dev-context/2020/003694.html), I added to an indiviual table \startxtable[split=yes] (being the default in the document \setupxtable[split=repeat, header=repeat]).

But I’m experiencing a weird issue with that approach.

I get the following error message (that breaks compilation) when I add \setupxtable[split=yes]:

You can't use '\prevdepth' in restricted horizontal mode

The single document (actually, an XML file) compiles just fine, but when combined together to generate a PDF document over 1000 pages, I get the error above.

My questions are: what is the restricted horizontal mode (as different from the horizontal mode)? Why might it be triggered with \startxtable[split=yes] in the huge source, but not in the single file?

At a wild guess, as I had a similar problem in my XML: try using \startembeddedxtable instead of \startxtable. In my case, what happened was that a row of the xtable ended up in the header/footer, generating the same error message you got. Not sure if it is actually the same problem, but switching is worth a shot. The \startxtable does not like to be wrapped into other environments, so \startembeddedxtable is much better for that. Best wishes, Taco