As the TABLE manual is not very easily available (and may be not even applicable here), I hope that somebody can answer to my question... I had to make a floating table. After a good deal of investigation in the Beginner's Manual and the list archives I've gotten everything else into place but the row spacing. My table (shortened version) is built like this: \setuptables[bodyfont={9pt,ss},distance=small] \placetable[here,force][table:specs]{Specifications} \starttable[|l|lw(8cm)|l|] \HL \VL \bf Abbrev. \VL \bf Product name \VL \bf Code \VL \SR \HL \VL bog. \VL Bogus text for testing \VL -X \VL \SR \HL \VL bog. \VL Bogus text for testing \VL -X \VL \FR \VL bog. \VL Bogus text for testing \VL -X \VL \LR \HL \VL bog. \VL Bogus text for testing \VL -X \VL \FR \VL bog. \VL Bogus text for testing \VL -X \VL \MR \VL bog. \VL Bogus text for testing \VL -X \VL \LR \HL \stoptable I managed to make the lines come somewhat tighter together by \setuptables[distance=small] but they are not close enough. I tried replacing \MR with \NR and other variants thereof, but that wasn't really a satisfying solution. So, how do I tell my ConTeXt how small I want "distance=small" to be (without affecting the text in the document)? The only document setting that may affect this is \setupwhitespace[medium]; in connection with this I've tried the commands \startpacked, \stoppacked and \nowhitespace, \whitespace (probably real dumb anyway), neither of them worked. Any help will be appreciated, Mari Voipio PS. Any easy way to color/shade a table cell/row?