"Willi Egger"
Could you be more specific?
I installed tonight the latest beta. After receiving your mail I tested simple and sophisticated tabulate files and there were no problems.
I have used the test.tex you have sent in the original post and with the lastest beta I get exactly the same error as you do. This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.00b-pretest-20020211-2.1 (Web2C 7.3.7x) \write18 enabled. entering extended mode (./test.tex{/opt/texlive/7/texmf-var/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg} ConTeXt ver: 2003.1.26 fmt: 2003.1.26 int: english mes: english ! Misplaced \noalign. \TABLEnoalign ->\noalign \bgroup \let \noalign \relax \let \next = \HL ->\TABLEnoalign {\ifnum \noftabulatelines =\zerocount \@EA \FL \else \if... \tabulatecontent ->\HL \NC Klasse \NC Gruppe \NC Art \NC \NR \NC Verzierungs... \fulltabulatecontent ...respaces \tabulatecontent \ifx \tabulatetailcontent ... \processtabulate ...sa \crcr \fulltabulatecontent \crcr }\prevdepth \dp \str... l.41 \stoptabulate } Patrick -- strange....