An example drom the wiki: \setuplinetable[n=6,lines=40] \setuplinetable[c][1] [width=2cm,background=color,backgroundcolor=red] \setuplinetable[c][4] [width=3cm,background=color,backgroundcolor=yellow] \setuplinetable[c][6] [width=3cm,background=color,backgroundcolor=magenta] \setuplinetable[r][odd] [background=color,backgroundcolor=gray] \setuplinetable[r][even][background=color,backgroundcolor=green] \starttext \showframe \showstruts \setupcolors[state=start] \startlinetable \dorecurse{5}{\NC aaa\crlf aaa \NC bb \NC c \NC ddddd \NC eeee \NC ff} \NC \NR \dorecurse{100}{\dorecurse{5}{\NC aaa \NC bb \NC c \NC ddddd \NC eeee \NC ff} \NC \NR} \stoplinetable \stoptext ! Missing number, treated as zero. <to be read again> d \!!depth ->d epth \domakeblackrule ...!!height \@@bjheight \!!depth \@@bjdepth \stopcolor \complexblackrule ...[\??bj ][#1]\domakeblackrule \egroup <argument> ...depth }, \c!width =\wd \scratchbox ] \hskip -\wd \scratchbox \b... \firstoftwoarguments #1#2->#1 ... l.16 ...aa \NC bb \NC c \NC ddddd \NC eeee \NC ff} \NC \NR ? current minimal mkii and mkiv Herbert