On Thu, 3 Apr 2025, Joel via ntg-context wrote:
>
> \starttext
> \input knuth
> \input knuth
> \input knuth
>
> {\boldface This is instructions.}
>
> \bTABLE[split=yes, frame=off]
> \bTR\bTD ... \eTD\bTD \input knuth \input knuth \eTD\eTR
> \bTR\bTD ... \eTD\bTD ... \eTD\eTR
> \bTR\bTD ... \eTD\bTD ... \eTD\eTR
> \bTR\bTD ... \eTD\bTD ... \eTD\eTR
> \bTR\bTD ... \eTD\bTD ... \eTD\eTR
> \bTR\bTD ... \eTD\bTD ... \eTD\eTR
> \bTR\bTD ... \eTD\bTD ... \eTD\eTR
> \bTR\bTD ... \eTD\bTD ... \eTD\eTR
> \bTR\bTD ... \eTD\bTD ... \eTD\eTR
> \bTR\bTD ... \eTD\bTD ... \eTD\eTR
> \bTR\bTD ... \eTD\bTD ... \eTD\eTR
> \bTR\bTD ... \eTD\bTD ... \eTD\eTR
> \bTR\bTD ... \eTD\bTD ... \eTD\eTR
> \bTR\bTD ... \eTD\bTD ... \eTD\eTR
> \bTR\bTD ... \eTD\bTD ... \eTD\eTR
> \bTR\bTD ... \eTD\bTD ... \eTD\eTR
> \eTABLE
> \stoptext
>
> here is a minimum working example. If it sees that one sell is rather big,
> like in the case the first one is, it decides to put it on the next page,
> instead of just splitting that cell up.
I believe that in natural tables the table cell cannot split over a page. If
there is not enough space to place the first row in the current page, then the
table moves to the next page.
Aditya
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