jbf schrieb am 28.03.2023 um 10:43:

Got it! But I would not have picked that up from reading http://www.pragma-ade.nl/general/manuals/xtables-mkiv.pdf, which was my guide for this particular exercise. It certainly says \placetable[here,split] but there is no mention of the \start...stop version of that.

Anyway, I now understand what I need to do, so thank you.

Julian

On 28/3/23 19:37, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
\startplacetable [location={here,split}]

When you use the old \place... commands you have to write

\placetable [here,split} {...} {...}

BTW: \placetable expects either {...} or \bgoup ...\egroup as second mandatory argument, in your case you has been lucky because \startxtable has an \bgroup in its definition but you shouldn't rely on this.

Wolfgang