Re: [NTG-context] aligning a table alignment with local footnotes

30 May 2017


      Many thanks, Hans. This is very fine solution for the tables that I have,
since they are quite wide.

Alan

On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 6:58 PM, Hans Hagen  wrote:
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On 5/30/2017 12:33 AM, Alan Bowen wrote:
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What is the best way to center a table and control/fix the textwidth of
the local footnotes?
I currently have:
\starttext
\startbuffer[Tab01]
\startlocalfootnotes
\bTABLE
\bTR\bTD So\eTD\bTD what%
\footnote{\input knuth} % <=
\eTD\eTR
\eTABLE
{\placelocalfootnotes}
\stoplocalfootnotes
\stopbuffer
\startplacetable[title=Test,
align=middle]
                   {\getbuffer[Tab01]}
\stopplacetable
\stoptext
If the footnote is commented out, the table is centered (as I want it).
With the footnote, the table is flushleft. I have managed to get what I
need by defining the \hsize of the footnotes and tweaking the loffset of
the table. But a general, less “empirical” approach would be vastly better.
\starttext
\startbuffer[Tab01]
\startlocalfootnotes
    \setbox\scratchbox\vbox{\bTABLE
        \bTR\bTD So\eTD\bTD what\footnote{\input knuth}\eTD\eTR
    \eTABLE}%
    \hsize\wd\scratchbox
    \box\scratchbox
    \par
    \placelocalfootnotes
\stoplocalfootnotes
\stopbuffer
\startplacetable[title=Test,align=middle]{\getbuffer[Tab01]}
\stopplacetable
\stoptext
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