[NTG-context] Problem with \stoptabulate

[Bruce Horrocks]

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