I have a technical manual style document that requires a lot of examples to be included. They can easily be typeset with a table so I thought I would save myself some typing by defining macros for the various bits of a tabulate table. Thus I have: \def\startMyExample{\starttabulate[|r|c|l|p|]} \def\stopMyExample{\stoptabulate} \def\MyExampleItem#1#2#3{\NC #1 \NC \rightarrow \NC #2 \NC #3 \NC\NR} \starttext Here are some examples... \startMyExample \MyExampleItem{before}{after}{change before into after} \MyExampleItem{straw}{gold}{Rumpelstiltskin} \stopMyExample %\stoptabulate \stoptext The problem is that \stopMyExample doesn't work - the \stoptabulate isn't recognised and I get an end of file reached error. If use a straight \stoptabulate then it works as expected. That's fine but it would be nice, from an aesthetic point of view, to have start & stop 'paired' commands in the source. Presumably some sort of deep ConTeXt fu is going on - can anyone explain it please? Regards, — Bruce Horrocks Hampshire, UK