On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 6:25 PM, Lars Huttar wrote:
Most of our mpgraphics are due to wanting thick-and-thin or single-and-double borders on tables, which are not natively supported by the ConTeXt table model. The advice I received said to define each mpgraphic using \startuseMPgraphic (we have about 18 of these), associate them with overlays using \defineoverlay (again, we have 18), and then use them in table cells using statements like \setupTABLE[c][first][background={LRtb}]
In that case I would suggest you to use vrules/hrules to achieve the same. As long as you don't need to use complicated graphics (like Hans uses random frames) this should be doable and would speed up the process enormously. What's the compile time if you omit the MP graphics? Mojca