As far as I experienced, it does split the table, but only at row borders. Not within a row, as 
the word example. Tabulate does this kind of splitting. For my usecase, this was enough, though
the other table environments have some goodies which the tabulate environment misses ...
(But maybe these features - e.g. combining cells - are the reason why the splitting of cells doesn't 
work ...) 

regards
Erik

On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 5:24 AM, Henning Hraban Ramm <texml@fiee.net> wrote:
Am 2016-06-08 um 02:48 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@gmail.com>:

>> Will the other table environments get this feature too?
> No, it’s a tabulate only feature.

Hm, our http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Tables_Overview mentions
TABLE’s split=yes
and linetable’s splitting.

I know at least the first works (even if not always like I’d expect).
I don’t know if linetables are working at all any more.

Greetlings, Hraban
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