In my document, for aesthetic reasons I would like the text in my tables to line up on the same baseline grid used by the running text. I have said \setupblank[fixed,line] and have been careful to make such things as section headings an integral number of lines, so everything else is lining up nicely; tables are the last hurdle.
If I use \halign to make tables, everything works OK; I get the expected amount of space above and below the table and between the table and its caption (having said \setupfloats[before=\blank,after=\blank] and \setupcaptions[inbetween=\blank]). But if I use \starttable...\stoptable, I get unexpected amounts of space above the table and above the caption, and I don't know how to control this. Also, I have tried using \bTABLE...\eTABLE. It's clear that \setupTABLE can be given various options accepted by \framed to alter the spacing, but I'm having trouble understanding how it works. So far nothing I've tried has had the desired effect. Questions: 1. What is the simplest way to get the table text to line up on the grid? 2. Is there documentation in English for the old-style (TaBlE-based) table macros in ConTeXt? (Last time I investigated this, it seemed that my choices were to pay $69 to PCTeX to buy the TaBlE macros with their documentation, or to read Section 14 of the ConTeXt reference manual in Dutch.) By the way, \setupcaptions[align=left] seems to align captions at the right, while \setupcaptions[align=right] aligns them at the left. Perhaps this is fixed in a newer version of the macros? I have 2001.2.27. -- Miller Maley
