On 31 Jan 2018, at 17:40, Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@gmail.com> wrote:

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Add “strip=yes” to remove spaces around the cells.

\defineseparatedlist
  [seplisttalk]
  [separator={;},
   command=\maketalk,
   strip=yes]


Yes it does the job! 
Thanks again, but I wonder where did you find this trick?… in i-context.pdf there is no entry for \defineseparatedlist…

Best regards: OK