Columnsets provide you the possibility to place column spanning pictures: Willi \definecolumnset[Doublecoltext][n=2,balance=no] \setupcolumnset[Doublecoltext][2][distance=5mm] \starttext \startcolumnset[Doublecoltext] \chapter[chap:testing]{Testing} \input knuth %\startpostponing \placefigure [btlr][fig:foo] {none} {\externalfigure[mill][width=1.5\textwidth,height=5cm]} %\stoppostponing \input tufte \input knuth \input tufte \input knuth \input tufte \stopcolumnset \stoptext On 30 Jun 2011, at 01:24, Jason Earl wrote:
\starttext \startcolumns \chapter[chap:testing]{Testing}
\startcolumns[n=2, tolerant=verytolerant] \input knuth
%\startpostponing \placefigure [center][fig:foo] {none} {\externalfigure[foo][] [width=1.5\textwidth]} %\stoppostponing
\input tufte
\input knuth
\input tufte
\input knuth
\input tufte
\stopcolumns \stoptext