Hi Roger, Crosstabs can be very effective. There are other ways to build tables in TBX, especially for publication. I encourage you to see this: Tinderbox Template - Dynamically Built HTML Table: Column Heads Children $Name, Row Labels Parent's $Displayed Attributes.
I’ve also build strategies around building tables from multiples notes and links:
And, you can use action code do do various quantified counts:
What I’ve found is that you can effectively build nearly any table you want, all it takes are your notes, some action code, a template.
Do you have a sample of the type of table you’d like to see?