Hi Hans, the position to set the \usesamefloatnumber conditional has to be moved up a few lines to fix a bug demonstrated by the example below. \def\tabl_split_loop_body {\ifinsidecolumns [...] \else % hack \ifdim\pagegoal<\maxdimen \pagegoal\dimexpr\pagegoal+\lineheight\relax % etex \fi % brrr \ifdim\ht\tsplitresult>\zeropoint \setbox\tsplitresult\vbox {\unvbox\tsplitresult \tsplitinbetween \unvcopy\tsplittail}% \page_split_float_process{\tsplitbeforeresult\box\tsplitresult\tsplitafterresult}% \doifnotinsidesplitfloat\tsplitafter \endgraf + \global\settrue\usesamefloatnumber \fi \ifinsidecolumns \goodbreak % was \doifnotinsidesplitfloat\goodbreak \else \page % was \doifnotinsidesplitfloat\page \fi - \global\settrue\usesamefloatnumber % new, prevent next increment \fi} %% begin example \setuplayout[lines=6] \starttext Text \startplacetable[location=split] \bTABLE \bTR \bTD \input tufte \eTD \eTR \eTABLE \stopplacetable \stoptext %% end example Wolfgang