Thank you! The code is much easier to understand than the other way I was trying to use. --Joel On Saturday, January 8, 2022, 04:00:12 PM MST, Willi Egger via ntg-context wrote: I would suggest not to use \starttable at all. To me the most suitable table environment for such a table is \bTABLE \eTABLE. It gives you all kind of control over layout, dimensions, frames on and off etc. \setupTABLE[c][1][leftframe=off,width=40mm] \setupTABLE[c][2][rightframe=off, width=60mm] \setupTABLE[c][each][align={lohi,center}] \bTABLE     \bTR         \bTD {\bf Eons}\eTD \bTD {\bf Eras} \eTD     \eTR     \bTR         \bTD  Hadeon Eon \eTD \bTD \eTD     \eTR     \bTR         \bTD[ny=4] Archanon Eon  \eTD \bTD Eoarchean Era \eTD     \eTR     \bTR         \bTD Paleoarchean Era \eTD     \eTR     \bTR         \bTD Mesoarchean Era \eTD     \eTR     \bTR         \bTD Neoarchean Era \eTD     \eTR     \bTR         \bTD[ny=3] Proterozoic Eon \eTD    \bTD Paleoproterozoic Era \eTD     \eTR     \bTR            \bTD Mesoproterozoic Era \eTD     \eTR     \bTR         \bTD Neoproterozoic Era\eTD     \eTR     \bTR         \bTD[ny=3] Phanerozoic Eon \eTD \bTD Paleozoic Era \eTD     \bTR            \bTD Mesozoic Era\eTD     \eTR     \bTR         \bTD Cenozoic Era \eTD     \eTR \eTABLE Willi

On 8 Jan 2022, at 22:39, Joel via ntg-context wrote:

I created a table that has some cells span multiple rows. This works good with cells that span an odd-number of rows, but when I try to span 4 rows, the text isn't quite vertically centered. How can I get the cell with the text "Archaeon Eon" to be a little lower, so it is centered within its box?

--Joel

Minimum working example:

\starttext

\starttable[|c|c|] \NC {\bf Eons} \NC {\bf Eras} \NC \AR \HL \NC Hadeon Eon \VL \NC \AR \HL \NC \VL Eoarchean Era \NC \AR \DC \DL[1] \DR \NC \smash{Archaeon Eon} \VL Paleoarchean Era \NC \AR \DC \DL[1] \DR \NC \VL Mesoarchean Era \NC \AR \DC \DL[1] \DR \NC \VL Neoarchean Era \NC \AR

\HL\NC \VL Paleoproterozoic Era \NC \AR \DC \DL[1] \DR \NC Proterozoic Eon \VL Mesoproterozoic Era \NC \AR \DC \DL[1] \DR \NC \VL Neoproterozoic Era \NC \AR \HL

\HL\NC \VL Paleozoic Era \NC \AR \DC \DL[1] \DR \NC Phanerozoic Eon \VL Mesozoic Era \NC \AR \DC \DL[1] \DR \NC \VL Cenozoic Era \NC \AR \HL \stoptable

\stoptext

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