All, I would like to use: \placefigure [right][fig:pythagoras] {An early portrait of Pythagoras.} {\getbuffer[figure]} And I would like to turn off the figure number in this caption, but just for this graphic, not for any other I place. I want the number off, but I want to keep the caption "An early portrait of Pythagoras." The following didn't work. \startbuffer[figure] \setupcaptions[number=no] \externalfigure[Pythagoras][width=4cm] \stopbuffer \placefigure [right][fig:pythagoras] {An early portrait of Pythagoras.} {\getbuffer[figure]} Pythagoras was a Greek mathematician and philosopher, born on the island of Samos somewhere near the year 582 BC. He founded a number of schools, one in particular in a town in southern Italy called Crotone, whose members eventually Any ideas?