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> how can I give a colored background to a single row of a
table?
>\background or \startbackground appear not to work -- because
of
>grouping complications, I guess.

There is a chapter on that in the dutch manual (around page
310); the english chapter on tables is being translated right
now. 

\starttable[|c|c|c|c|]
\CL[green]\FR
\VL aa \VL bb \VL cc \VL dd \VL\FR
\VL aa \VL bb \VL cc \VL dd \VL\MR
\VL aa \VL bb \VL cc \VL dd \VL\MR
\VL aa \VL bb \VL cc \VL dd \VL\LR
\stoptable

More advanced stuff is coming (i'm working on that now) like
arbitrary backgrounds, overlapping backgrounds etc. That will be
the better mechanism, working in both tables and tabulate, 

Hans