On 2014–01–15 Joshua Krämer wrote:
I have found out that I had interpreted the problem wrongly. It is not a problem of balancing, it is a problem of the layout macros.
It's not a problem with the macros, it's a consequence of you using them the wrong way.
I use a different page layout for the titlepage and switch to the main layout later. This switch is in the front matter part, which results in the new layout being respected for one page only. Somehow for subsequent pages, the layout is wrong.
Here's a suggestion of how to set it up correctly. This also fixes the table. \definemakeup [Titlelayout] [top=] \definelayout [Titlelayout] [width=10cm, height=10cm, header=0cm, footer=0cm] \setuplayout [width=10cm, height=25cm, header=0cm, footer=0cm] \showframe \starttext \startfrontmatter \startmakeup [Titlelayout] Title \stopmakeup \stopfrontmatter \dorecurse{5}{\input{knuth}} \startplacetable [location=270] \setupTABLE [option=stretch, textwidth=\textheight] \bTABLE \bTR \bTD 1 \eTD \bTD 2 \eTD \eTR \eTABLE \stopplacetable \dorecurse{5}{\input{knuth}} \stoptext Marco