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Ed L Cashin wrote

> Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> writes:
>
> > At 20:52 01/10/2003, you wrote:
> >
> >> > My second question is how do I make vertical lines in tabulate
tables?
> >>
> >>without thinking about it I'd say: you can't.
> >
> > indeed, it's on my to do list (i.e. when i need it); dirty trick (only
> > non pars):
> >
> > \starttabulate[|b{\vl\quad}a{\quad\vl}|b{\vl\quad}a{\quad\vl}|]
> > \NC test \NC test \NC \NR
> > \NC test \NC test \NC \NR
> > \stoptabulate
>
> Thanks for the dirty trick.  My major professor made fun of my use of
> context when he found out that I couldn't easily put a vertical line
> in a table.  :)
>
There are of course other Context environments where you are definitely able
to prodce lines in whatever style.
\starttable{} .. \stoptable for simple tables may be you compile the
module-documentation form core-tab.tex
\bTABLE ... \eTABLE for difficult tables  there is a example file on
pragma-site!

Regards Willi