Dear gang, It seems that \starttable has a bug in MkIV: \starttext \starttable{|c|c|c|} \HL \VL Test \VL Test \VL Test \VL\FR \stoptable \stoptext This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.71.0-2011071409 (rev 4332) \write18 enabled. (placetable.tex ConTeXt ver: 2011.11.05 01:19 MKIV fmt: 2011.11.6 int: english/english : ! Undefined control sequence. system > tex > error on line 3 in file placetable.tex: Undefined control sequence ... 1 \starttext 2 \starttable{|c|c|c|} 3 >> \HL 4 \VL Test \VL Test \VL Test \VL\FR 5 \stoptable 6 \stoptext 7 l.3 \HL ? Works in mkii (this is part of my ongoing work to port my huge mkii project to MkIV). Please advise! Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shīʿī Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523