On Fri, 12 Nov 2010, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

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> Am 12.11.2010 um 19:19 schrieb Hans Hagen:
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>> So, if there's interest in the \starttable .. \stoptable mechanism (i have no idea how often it is used) I can consider weeding and redoing some of that code (or just rewrite it from scratch which is probably easier).
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> There is still a use for the old table macros because it’s easier to set 
> small tables (alignment in the preamble versus many \setupTABLE 
> settings), you can set different spacing between rows which is not part 
> of tabulate and you can span cells (also not supported in tabulate).

Perhaps we can add an align key to \startTABLE macro so that we could say

\startTABLE[align={left, right, middle}]
  \NC a \NC b \NC c \NC \NR
  \NC a \NC b \NC c \NC \NR
\stopTABLE

similar to math alignment.

Aditya