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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this is fixed in a newer version of the macros?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