Many thanks, Hans. This is very fine solution for the tables that I have,
since they are quite wide.
Alan
On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 6:58 PM, Hans Hagen <pra...@wxs.nl> wrote:
> On 5/30/2017 12:33 AM, Alan Bowen wrote:
>
>> What is the best way to center a table and control/fix the textwidth of
>> the local footnotes?
>>
>> I currently have:
>>
>> \starttext
>>
>> \startbuffer[Tab01]
>> \startlocalfootnotes
>> \bTABLE
>> \bTR\bTD So\eTD\bTD what%
>> \footnote{\input knuth} % <=
>> \eTD\eTR
>> \eTABLE
>> {\placelocalfootnotes}
>> \stoplocalfootnotes
>> \stopbuffer
>>
>> \startplacetable[title=Test,
>> align=middle]
>> {\getbuffer[Tab01]}
>> \stopplacetable
>>
>> \stoptext
>>
>> If the footnote is commented out, the table is centered (as I want it).
>> With the footnote, the table is flushleft. I have managed to get what I
>> need by defining the \hsize of the footnotes and tweaking the loffset of
>> the table. But a general, less “empirical” approach would be vastly better.
>>
> \starttext
>
> \startbuffer[Tab01]
> \startlocalfootnotes
> \setbox\scratchbox\vbox{\bTABLE
> \bTR\bTD So\eTD\bTD what\footnote{\input knuth}\eTD\eTR
> \eTABLE}%
> \hsize\wd\scratchbox
> \box\scratchbox
> \par
> \placelocalfootnotes
> \stoplocalfootnotes
> \stopbuffer
>
> \startplacetable[title=Test,align=middle]{\getbuffer[Tab01]}
> \stopplacetable
>
> \stoptext
>
>
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