I have a document setup with: \starttext\startfrontmatter(contains all front matter content)\stopfrontmatter \startbodymatter \stopbodymatter \startbackmatter \stopbackmatter\stoptext I was noticing very strange behavior where \setvalue was not showing up as \getvalue. I put it in lots of pllaces, but in the main part of the document, it wasn't working. Its like it was never set. After a lot of testing, I discovered if \setvalue is set inside \startbodymatter, its value stays unset. But I can set it in the front matter, backmatter, anywhere else. Here is my minimum working example, note that \getvalue{B} never appears, it was set within the bodymatter. \setvalue{A}{this is a test} \starttext \startbodymatter \setvalue{B}{Why is hits one missing?} \stopbodymatter \startbackmatter \dostepwiserecurse{1}{3}{1}{ \setvalue{C}{this is yet another test} \getvalue{A} \getvalue{B} \getvalue{C} } \stopbackmatter \stoptext What is going on? Should I no longer be using the \startbodymatter, etc. items? --Joel