Hi Willi,

sorry for the late reply, was a bit ill

Willi Egger wrote:
> \setupbackgrounds[text][state=repeat,background=screen,backgroundscreen=.8]

I'll try that, but the frame coloring is just for debugging. My
intention was to control the exact aligning of the table on the page.

> bTABLE breaks over pages if you use [split=repeat] together with a\ 
> bTABLEhead...\eTABLEhead.

> Using the \rotate command prevents breaking, Possibly you better use
>     \setuppapersize[a4,landscape][a4,landscape], which of course rotates 
> the whole layout including headers and footers.

I didn't think of that, I'll try it out.

> I am afraid, that once you include the table into a \placefigure 
> environment, breaking is prevented.

Is there a way to add a caption without \placetable then?

> I was able to break a long table with a merged cell as you have it in 
> the first column. However there is possibly a bug, because this column 
> has no "bottomframe".
> In order to place the "LOW TECH" text correctly you might use a \framed 
> command within the table
>         \bTD[nr=7,align=lohi] \rotate[rotation=90]{\framed[frame=off, 
> offset=.5em,align=center,width=3cm]{Low Tech}}\eTD

I'll try that too.

Thanks alot,
Karsten
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