Hi! I'd like to follow up on a problem that Denis came across recently with the titles argument in tabulate. (It's more a solution than a question, but any hints to improve the answer are welcome.) I wanted to use this argument for an easy specification of, well, a title for a "recipe". The advantage is that all information is held together and it's easy to use for people who are not (too) familiar with ConTeXt. So, in one file I can define all styles (which the end-user would not need to see): \definetabulate[recipe][|l|l|p|l|] \setuptabulate [recipe] [ bodyfont=small, distance=medium, before={\blank[back, small]}, header=text, headstyle=\bi, % this formats the "\BC" cells headcolor=red, % this formats the "\BC" cells ] \starttext And then use: \startrecipe[title={Whatever mixture 1}] \FL \NC Absolute \BC Stock \NC Ingredient \NC Final \NR \HL \NC 1 \NR \LL \stoprecipe \startrecipe[title={Whatever mixture 2}] \FL \BC Absolute \BC Stock \BC Ingredient \BC Final \NR \HL \NC 1 \NR \LL \stoprecipe \stoptext etc. However, I cannot change the way the title is styled (or spaced from the table) unless I do "title={\bi Some text.}". However, blank commands are also stripped off at this place. (I also don't get a clue from the source if there is any argument to spike-in some formatting.) So, if there is no easy way to access this one, we can work around: \definetabulate[recipetab][|l|l|p|l|] \setuptabulate [recipetab] [ bodyfont=small, distance=medium, before={\blank[back, small]}, % header=text, % THIS MUST NOT BE "text" headstyle=bold, headcolor=red, ] \define\startrecipe{\dodoubleempty\dostartrecipe} \long\def\dostartrecipe[#1][#2]#3\stoprecipe{% \iffirstargument {\bi #1}\blank[medium] \fi \ifsecondargument \startrecipetab[#2] #3 \stoprecipetab \else \startrecipetab #3 \stoprecipetab \fi } \startrecipe[Head 1] \FL \BC Absolute \BC Stock \BC Ingredient \BC Final \NR \HL \NC 1 \NR \LL \stoprecipe \startrecipe[Head 2][headcolor=blue] % pass on arguments to tabulate \FL \BC Absolute \BC Stock \BC Ingredient \BC Final \NR \HL \NC 1 \NR \LL \stoprecipe Small question though: Is there a ConTeXt way to "\long\def" or a simple way ("user interface") to filter a list of arguments for a specific key=val pair, e.g. to make a single optional argument with headertitle={Some header.}? Best Benjamin