Hello, I'd like to explicitly thank Hans for these changes to the table splitting, which is giving my thesis the last touches. Thanks you for your openness towards ConTeXt's users - even the more obnoxiously insisting ones ;0) Joh Hans Hagen wrote:

Hi,

I will upload an alpha release with a cleaned up table (float) split mechanism. The splitter works for all three table types, either or not in floats with repeated head (and tail) sections, optionally with automatic (may become default) caption height detection etc. It works ok on some simple test files, but I have no time to test more obscure situations.

I'm not that sure if everything is downward compatible, but splitting is always tricky (and demanded some intervention) anyway. So, if you are using this kind of functionality, go ahead, download and test ..

\setupTABLE[split=repeat]

\input tufte \endgraf \splitfloat[lines=11] {\placetable{\dorecurse{10}{test\recurselevel\endgraf}}} {\bTABLE\dorecurse{100}{\bTR \bTD test \eTD \eTR}\eTABLE} \input tufte \page

\input tufte \endgraf \splitfloat[lines=0] {} {\bTABLE\dorecurse{100}{\bTR \bTD test \eTD \eTR}\eTABLE} \input tufte \endgraf \page

\input tufte \endgraf \bTABLE\dorecurse{100}{\bTR \bTD test \eTD \eTR}\eTABLE \input tufte \page

\setuptabulate[split=yes]

\input tufte \endgraf \splitfloat[lines=11] {\placetable{\dorecurse{10}{test\recurselevel\endgraf}}} {\starttabulate\dorecurse{200}{\NC test \NC test \NC \NR}\stoptabulate} \input tufte \page

\input tufte \endgraf \splitfloat[lines=0] {} {\starttabulate\dorecurse{200}{\NC test \NC test \NC \NR}\stoptabulate} \input tufte \page

\input tufte \endgraf \starttabulate\dorecurse{200}{\NC test \NC test \NC \NR}\stoptabulate \input tufte \page

\setuptables[split=yes]

\newtoks\TestToks

\TestToks\emptytoks \appendtoks\starttablehead\to\TestToks \dorecurse{3}{\appendtoks\VL head \VL head \VL \SR\to\TestToks} \appendtoks\stoptablehead\to\TestToks \appendtoks\starttabletail\to\TestToks \dorecurse{3}{\appendtoks\VL tail \VL tail \VL \SR\to\TestToks} \appendtoks\stoptabletail\to\TestToks \appendtoks\starttables[|c|c|]\to\TestToks \dorecurse{100}{\appendtoks\VL test \VL test \VL \SR\to\TestToks} \appendtoks\stoptables\to\TestToks

\input tufte \endgraf \splitfloat[lines=auto] % [lines=11] {\placetable{\dorecurse{10}{test\recurselevel\endgraf}}} {\the\TestToks} \input tufte \page

\input tufte \endgraf \splitfloat[lines=0] {} {\the\TestToks} \input tufte \page

\input tufte \endgraf \the\TestToks \input tufte \page

Watch the lines=auto option! Mechanisms like this will never be perfect, but I think that the cleanup is not that bad. Especially the \startable bits and pieces needs some more testing, but then, i need to cleanup up that code anyway (write a cleaner version of that whole table mechanism).

Hans

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