Also in upcoming: The auto variants \NA \BA will loop over colors:
\setuptabulate[foregroundcolor=white] \setuptabulate[backgroundcolor:1=darkred] \setuptabulate[backgroundcolor:2=darkgreen] \setuptabulate[backgroundcolor:3=darkblue] \starttabulate[|||] \BA foo foo foo \BC bar bar bar bar \NC \NR \BA foo foo foo \BC bar bar bar bar \NC \NR \BA foo foo foo \BC bar bar bar bar \NC \NR \BA foo foo foo \BC bar bar bar bar \NC \NR \BA foo foo foo \BC bar bar bar bar \NC \NR \BA foo foo foo \BC bar bar bar bar \NC \NR \stoptabulate -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________