Re: [NTG-context] weird issue with xtable

On 8/13/20 1:16 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote:

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On 13 Aug 2020, at 13:07, Pablo Rodriguez wrote: [...] I get the following error message (that breaks compilation) when I add \setupxtable[split=yes]:

You can't use '\prevdepth' in restricted horizontal mode [...] My questions are: what is the restricted horizontal mode (as different from the horizontal mode)? Why might it be triggered with \startxtable[split=yes] in the huge source, but not in the single file?

At a wild guess, as I had a similar problem in my XML: try using \startembeddedxtable instead of \startxtable. In my case, what happened was that a row of the xtable ended up in the header/footer, generating the same error message you got.

Not sure if it is actually the same problem, but switching is worth a shot. The \startxtable does not like to be wrapped into other environments, so \startembeddedxtable is much better for that.

Many thanks for your reply, Taco. Sorry for not realizing that I was missing it: I already use \startembeddedxtable to deal with XML. The first time I tried to add table support to my environment for XML, I cound’t make \startxtable work. I wonder what triggers the error with a huge file. Many thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk