Hello,

I'm using ConTeXt as part of a XML -> PDF workflow for technical documentation. 
 These documents often have large tables, so I am using "placetable[split]" for 
table placement.  While placetable[split] works as advertised, the output 
quality often suffers.  One of the issues that I've found is that you'll often 
see a table with one row on a separate page from the rest of the table.  Is 
there any way to control table orphans and widows such that there will never be 
just one (or some arbitrary number) rows of a table split across a page.

Another feature that I think would be useful is the ability to set a split 
threshold for a table.  In my use, tables that are less than 1/3 to 1/2 page 
should probably be included as a float (i.e., not split), whereas tables larger 
than this would benefit from being split.  Is it possible to add a new 
placement option for tables that includes a splitting threshold?  I would add 
this as part of my XML->TeX transform, but I don't think the rendering path has 
enough information to know how large table rows will be when rendered.

Any thoughts?

Cheers,
Mike   
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