TABLE

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This mighty table mode is called "natural tables" or "automatic tables". I'd call it "HTML tables", because it's very similar to them. They're especially suited for XML conversions.

Beware: every element must use \b ... \e!

You find a lot of samples in enattab.pdf

Willi Egger wrote a My Way how he set a typesetter's lead type case: Use of natural tables

\setupTABLE[row][odd][background=color,backgroundcolor=red, width=.3\textwidth]
\bTABLE[split=yes]
\bTR \bTD[nr=3] 1 \eTD \bTD[nc=2] 2/3 \eTD \bTD[nr=3] 4 \eTD \eTR
\bTR \bTD 2 \eTD \bTD 3 \eTD \eTR
\bTR \bTD 2 \eTD \bTD 3 \eTD \eTR
\bTR \bTD[nc=3] 1/2/3 \eTD \bTD 4 \eTD \eTR
\bTR \bTD 1 \eTD \bTD 2 \eTD \bTD 3 \eTD \bTD 4 \eTD \eTR
\eTABLE

You get automatic page breaking with the option [split=yes].

The sample looks like this: