Rotate a placetable/placefigure plus caption in ConTeXt?

Question

I've a large table, which I want to rotate to fit onto one page. My current solution looks like:

\placetable{some text}
{\rotate[rotation=90]{
  \starttable[...]
       ....
  \stoptable}}

But unfortunately this way only the table itself is rotate, not the caption.

Instead I want the table across the page to be in "landscape", whereas the header and footer won't be rotated. Something like:

\rotate[rotation=90]{
  \placetable{some text}
  {\starttable[...]
        ....
   \stoptable}}

such that the caption is rotated to and "under" the table (if the page is rotated to landscape in the viewer).

Update:

• example file with Taco Hoekwater's solution: https://gist.github.com/1034341
• now header and footer is missing.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

In ConTeXt, all floats support rotation.

\placetable[90]{Caption}{Table content}

You can also try 180 and 270 to get other rotation angles.