Hi, A while ago Herbert reported problems with color in \starttable and Aditya suggested to provide \VL in \starttabulate. Also, there's some experimental coloring code in tabulate. So, I decided to add better color support to tabulate as well as vertical lines (for as far as it makes sense). Below you will see how the interface works. A side effect is that \NC[color] is no longer supported: we need 4 cases instead of one. Concerning \starttable: I started merging the patches into the TaBlE code but also started wondering if we should still provide this mechanism in \MKIV. I'm considering making it a module, and then remove the color options from it as it's a kludge anyway. Using thi smechanism has no real advantages over tabulate or TABLE (apart maybe from speed). I uploaded a new beta (which then will be synced with the minimals). % my test file: \starttext % \setuptabulate[distance=none] \starttabulate[|CR{red}|CC{yellow}|CM{green}|CL{blue}|] \NC test \NC test \NC test \NC test \NC \NR \NC test \NC test \NC test \NC test \NC \NR \NC test \NC test \NC test \NC test \NC \NR \NC test \NC test \NC test \NC test \NC \NR \stoptabulate \starttabulate[|CM{red}|CM{green}|CM{blue}|] \NC test \NC test \NC test \NC \NR \NC test \NC test \NC test \NC \NR \NC test \NC test \NC test \NC \NR \NC test \NC test \NC test \NC \NR \stoptabulate \ruledvbox{\starttabulate[||||][before=,after=] \NC test \CC[red] CC \NC test \NC \NR \NC test \CL[green] CL \NC test \NC \NR \NC test \CM[blue] CM \NC test \NC \NR \NC test \CR[yellow] CR \NC test \NC \NR \stoptabulate} \starttabulate[||||] \VL test \VL[red] CC \VL test \VL \NR \VL test \VL[green] CL \VL test \VL \NR \VL test \VL[blue] CM \VL test \VL \NR \VL test \VL[yellow] CR \VL test \VL \NR \stoptabulate \starttabulate[|{10,red}|{10,green}|{10,blue}|{10,magenta}] \NC test \NC test \NC test \NC \NR \NC test \NC test \NC test \NC \NR \NC test \NC test \NC test \NC \NR \NC test \NC test \NC test \NC \NR \stoptabulate \starttabulate[|{red}|{green}|{blue}|{magenta}] \NC test \NC test \NC test \NC \NR \NC test \NC test \NC test \NC \NR \NC test \NC test \NC test \NC \NR \NC test \NC test \NC test \NC \NR \stoptabulate \starttabulate[*{4}{|{red}}] \NC test \NC test \NC test \NC \NR \NC test \NC test \NC test \NC \NR \NC test \NC test \NC test \NC \NR \NC test \NC test \NC test \NC \NR \stoptabulate % \starttabulate[||p||] % \CC[green] test \CC[red] test \CC[blue] test \NC \NR % \NC \setlocalhsize \the\localhsize test \NC test \NC test \NC \NR % \HL % \NC test \CC[green] \input tufte \CC[yellow] test \NC \NR % \RC rc \NC test \NC test \NC \NR % \NC qqqq \EQ[blue] test \NC test \NC \NR % \NC test \NC test \NC test \NC \NR % \NC test \NC test \NC test \NC \NR % \CC[blue] test \CC[red] test \NC test \NC \NR % \NC test \VL[red] test \NC test \NC \NR % \NC test \VL test \NC test \NC \NR % \NC test \VL test \NC test \NC \NR % \NC test \VL test \CC[gray] test \NC \NR % \NC test \VL test \NC test \NC \NR % \NC test \VL test \NC test \NC \NR % \CC[blue] test \NC test \NC test \NC \NR % \NC test \NC test \NC test \NC \NR % \NC test \NC test \CC[magenta] test \NC \NR % \NC test \NC test \NC test \NC \NR % \NC test \CC[cyan] \dorecurse{10}{\input ward }\NC test \NC \NR % \NC test \NC test \NC test \NC \NR % \NC test \CC[yellow] test \NC test \NC \NR % \stoptabulate \stoptext ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------