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

29 May 2017


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Subject: Re: [NTG-context] aligning a table alignment with local footnotes
Date: Tue, 30 May 2017 00:58:47 +0200
From: Hans Hagen 
To: Alan Bowen 

On 5/30/2017 12:33 AM, Alan Bowen wrote:
...
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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