Am 04.07.2011 um 15:53 schrieb Cecil Westerhof:

2011/7/4 Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>
This is *not* a minimal working example, neither it’s minimal nor it’s working.

What do you mean by this? I had a problem, thus sure it is not working.

1. You example is not minimal because you have a lot of unnecessary commands in it.

2. Your example does not work because you use commands which aren’t defined in the file.

You can fix this by replacing the \\ with \crlf to add a linebreak in the entries:

Works like a charm: thanks.

Is it not strange that the behavior is different before and after a \content?

No because i had been wrong and \\ isn’t a valid command to end the line
in tabulate, it’s used to write tabulate in a different form, e.g. look
at \startlegend in the manual or at the following example:

\starttext

\definetabulate[test][|l|p|]
\setuptabulate [test][inner=\setquicktabulate\test]

\starttest
\test 1 \\ 2 \\
\test 3 \\ 4 \\
\stoptest

\stoptext

Wolfgang