2011/8/3 Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>

> > That is in this case a better solution. For one in my solution the table
> became to wide. (Do not know why.)
>
>
>> The combined width of the columns in your table had been \textwidth but
>> there is also a space between the columns which makes the table wider than
>> the normal text.
>>
>
> Is it know how much spave this is? For another table I now use:
>   \starttable[|w(.10\textwidth)|p(.82\textwidth)|]
>
> This looks about right, but if there is a better way to do it …
>
>
> Set only a width for the first column, the width of the “p” column
> is calculated by ConTeXt.
>

That does not work. The p column will become as long as the first column:
\starttext

\starttable[|w(.10\textwidth)|p(.82\textwidth)|]
\HL
\NC Field one \NC A quit long field to show what goes wrong \NC\AR
\HL
\stoptable

\starttable[|w(.10\textwidth)|p|]
\HL
\NC Field one \NC A quit long field to show what goes wrong \NC\AR
\HL
\stoptable

\stoptext

-- 
Cecil Westerhof