Hello, (A question for a coffee break for Hans or Taco while updating macros for tables, although it may already be implemented somewhere.) I have a table with one column for room names with an optional slash (see below). The case is equivalent to aligning floating-point & natural numbers (without comma) in the same column. I aligned the entries with alignmentcharacter=/, which works perfect except in the cases where there's no slash present (the real example did an even worse, extremely strange alignment, where those numbers were sticking out of the cells, but I'll investigate that a bit & post an example another time). % plain text aligned in the same way as I would like it to have in the result \setupTABLE[c][1][aligncharacter=yes,alignmentcharacter=/,width=3cm,align=middle] \bTABLE \bTR\bTD 01/1 \eTD\eTR \bTR\bTD 02/13 \eTD\eTR \bTR\bTD 03 \eTD\eTR \bTR\bTD 314/2 \eTD\eTR \bTR\bTD 315 \eTD\eTR \eTABLE Is there an elegant way which would align those numbers as if they had an additional slash on the right? I was thinking about placing a transparent slash behind those number, but there may be a a cleaner & more elegant solution for it. If not, it could be done approximately in the spirit of alignifnoalignmentcharacterpresent= absoluteflushleft / % according to the cell absoluteflushright / % according to the cell middle / relativeflushleft / % according to the aligned content % since remaining numbers may be aligned to the right or to the middle, % this would align just as left as the leftmost number with alignment character relativeflushright / leftofthealignmentcharacter / % I only need this one rightofthealignmentcharacter . Alternatively I could define something completely invisible like \alignmehere and then use: \setupTABLE[c][1] [aligncharacter=yes, alignmentcharacter={\alignmehere}, width=3cm,align=middle] \bTABLE \bTR\bTD 01\alignmehere/1 \eTD\eTR \bTR\bTD 02\alignmehere/13 \eTD\eTR \bTR\bTD 03\alignmehere \eTD\eTR \bTR\bTD 314\alignmehere/2 \eTD\eTR \bTR\bTD 315\alignmehere \eTD\eTR \eTABLE but I don't know what the definition of "\alignmehere" could be so that it would work OK. (Useful for complex alignments; for aligning nubers the first solution would be cleaner and better.) Thanks for any suggestions, Mojca