Hi Marco, I hesitate to use combinations because Table 1.1 (a) and Table 1.1 (b) are not always related to each other. But I will use combinations if everything else fails. Do you have any intuitions as to why the numbering begins at 7? I tried to not use the outermost float ("\placetable[here,none][]{}{ ") and it still started numbering at 7. I believe this is an issue with nested tables, not nested floats. Best regards, Prash On 10/03/12 14:29, Marco wrote:

On 2012-03-09 Prashanth wrote:

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I need to create some small tables that are (possibly) next to each other. Though I could make text flow around tables and appear to the left or to the right of the table, I could not manage something like this: I would use combinations for that (see example below).

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So I tried to use nested floats to achieve this Nesting floats is not a good idea.

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(floats because I want each to have its own number and title). There are other ways to achieve that.

\setupheads [chapter] [page=no]

\startbuffer \bTABLE [frame=off, align=center] \bTR \bTD abc \eTD \bTD def \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD ghi \eTD \bTD jkl \eTD \eTR \eTABLE \stopbuffer

\starttext

\startchapter [title=First] \startsection [title=1st Section] \startplacetable \startcombination [2*1] {\getbuffer} {(a)} {\getbuffer} {(b)} \stopcombination \stopplacetable \stopsection \stopchapter

\startchapter [title=Second] \startplacetable [location=right] \setupcombination [distance=2cm] \startcombination [2*2] {\getbuffer} {(a)} {\getbuffer} {(b)} {\getbuffer} {(c)} {\getbuffer} {(d)} \stopcombination \stopplacetable \input knuth \stopchapter

\stoptext

Marco

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On 2012-03-10 Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

You can use floatcombinations: http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20060411.201855.519a8b16.en.html

The example code in the mail give an error message: ! Use of \somelocalfloat doesn't match its definition. system > tex > error on line 3 in file floatcombi.tex: Use of ... 1 \starttext 2 \startfloatcombination [2*2] 3 >> \placefigure{alpha}{\externalfigure[cow.pdf][width=1cm]} Example: \starttext \startfloatcombination [2*2] \placefigure{alpha}{\externalfigure[cow.pdf][width=1cm]} \placefigure{beta} {\externalfigure[cow.pdf][width=2cm]} \placefigure{gamma}{\externalfigure[cow.pdf][width=3cm]} \placefigure{delta}{\externalfigure[cow.pdf][width=4cm]} \stopfloatcombination \stoptext Marco

Am 10.03.2012 um 23:33 schrieb Prashanth:

Hi Wolfgang, This is exactly what I was looking for. However, it works only in mkii, not in mkiv. Searching though the mailinglist for floatcombinations, I came across this discussion ( http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20100601.084655.c7d6e858.en.html). Taco's solution works just like Hans' code, but again, only in mkii.

With a simple fix in strc-flt.mkvi \startcombination will work but still each figure is to wide and all of them won’t fit on the page. \def\somelocalfloat % strc-flt.mkvi: was \def\somelocalfloat[#1]% {\doglobal\increment\noflocalfloats \savebox{localfloats}{\noflocalfloats}{\box\floatbox}} \setuppapersize[A5][A4,landscape] \starttext \showframe \startfloatcombination [2*2] \placefigure{alpha}{\externalfigure[cow.pdf][width=1cm]} \placefigure{beta} {\externalfigure[cow.pdf][width=2cm]} \placefigure{gamma}{\externalfigure[cow.pdf][width=3cm]} \placefigure{delta}{\externalfigure[cow.pdf][width=4cm]} \stopfloatcombination \stoptext Wolfgang