[NTG-context] Shift tabulate into margin and center

[Tim Steenvoorden]

Hi all,

Apparently the solution does not work with multiple blocks on the same page. Table floats get ill aligned and frame rules are drawn double (see attachment). How should I fix this?

Cheers,
Tim
On 4 May 2020, 20:42 +0200, Tim Steenvoorden <tim.steenvoorden at gmail.com>, wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I’ve a page layout with a broad left margin. I’d like to create frames in the text which utilize the margin and the typearea with centered contents. I managed to do this with the following code, but I wonder if there is an easier and more elegant way to do this in ConTeXt, especially the centering of the tabulation.
>
> Cheers,
> Tim
>
>
> \startproduct test-tabulate
>
> \setuppapersize[B5]
> \setuplayout
> [backspace=13pc,
> leftmargin=8pc,
> leftmargindistance=1pc,
> width=24.5pc,
> rightmargin=0pc,
> %%
> topspace=4pc,
> header=0pc,
> height=49pc,
> footer=0pc,
> bottomdistance=2.5pc,
> bottom=1pc,
> location=middle]
>
> \define\fullwidth{\dimexpr(\leftmargindistance+\leftmarginwidth+\textwidth)}
>
> \section{First}
> \subsection{First first}
>
> \input tufte
>
> \setupnarrower[left=-9pc]
> \startnarrower[left]
> \startframedtext[frame=off,topframe=on,bottomframe=on,align=middle,width=\fullwidth]
> The whole frame should be shifted to the left.
> As the text, this table should centered in the box.
> \placefigure[none,force]{}
> \starttabulate[|l|r|]
> \NC 0 \NC 1 \NR
> \NC 2 \NC 3 \NR
> \NC 4 \NC 5 \NR
> \NC 6 \NC 7 \NR
> \NC 8 \NC 9 \NR
> \stoptabulate
> \startformula
> E=mc^2
> \stopformula
> \stopframedtext
> \stopnarrower
>
> \input tufte
>
> \stopproduct
>
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