Hello Marco,

this is an interesting solution. I would not have thaught of using the
width parameter to consume the textwidth which of course prevents other
text flowing around the table.
Thank you!
Willi

On Feb 18 2026, at 10:11 am, Marco Patzer <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, 17 Feb 2026 23:10:13 +0100
> Willi Egger <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> I would like to put a series of tables leftaligned without the text to
>> flow around it when the table is small.
> 
> Like this?
> 
> \startdocument
> \samplefile{tufte}
> 
> \startplacetable
>  [width=\textwidth,
>   title= Test table]
>  \startlinealignment [left]
>    \bTABLE
>      \bTABLEhead
>        \bTR \bTD Command  \eTD \bTD Description \eTD \eTR
>      \eTABLEhead
>      \bTABLEbody
>        \bTR \bTD test \eTD \bTD whatever \eTD \eTR
>        \bTR \bTD test \eTD \bTD whatever \eTD \eTR
>        \bTR \bTD test \eTD \bTD whatever \eTD \eTR
>        \bTR \bTD test \eTD \bTD whatever \eTD \eTR
>      \eTABLEbody
>    \eTABLE
>  \stoplinealignment
> \stopplacetable
> 
> \samplefile{knuth}
> \stopdocument
> 
> Marco
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