[NTG-context] \placetable vs. \placefloat and option "none"

[Wolfgang Schuster]

Lukas/ConTeXt schrieb am 08.07.2020 um 12:08:
> Hello,
>
> (– resending now without resulting .pdf to avoid attachment size limit –)
>
> option "none" has different effect with \placetable and \placefloat.
>
> No problem with this, but as I thought both commands raise from the same code (or more precisely: I thought that \placetable is special case (specialization) of \placefloat), I'm a bit surprised that \placefloat[none] keeps caption whilst \placetable[none] supresses it. See the sample:
>
> ----
> \setupexternalfigures[location=default]
>
> \starttext
>    \placetable[force,none]{}{\externalfigure[cow]} % [1]
>    \placefloat[force,none]{}{\externalfigure[cow]}
> \stoptext
> ----
>
> (I'm aware that I'm placing \externalfigure into \placetable in [1] - does it matter?)
>
> - Also relates here: https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/placefloat .

The \placefloat command expects the name of the float instance as first 
argument, e.g. \placefloat[table].

Wolfgang