I've got this in my environment file: \def\ClearChapterQuote{\def\ChapterQuote{}} \ClearChapterQuote \def\ChQuoteFormat#1{\starttext% \startalignment[left]% \startnarrower[4*left] \noindent{\hyphenpenalty 10000\em #1}% \stopnarrower\stopalignment\stoptext\blank} \setuphead[chapter] [page=left, before={\ChQuoteFormat{\ChapterQuote}\noheaderandfooterlines% \page[right]\blank[2*big]}, after={\ClearChapterQuote\blank[3*big]}% \noheaderandfooterlines] I've got two problems with this setup: First, even with the \hyphenpenalty I get this line breaking: For what can a man accomplish that has not been done a million times before? What can he say that he will not find in Lao-Tse or the Bhagavad-gita or the Prophet Isa- iah? John Steinbeck — Sweet Thursday (Interestingly, when I copy/paste this from Apple's Preview.app I get For what can a man accomplish that has not been done a million times before? What can he say that he will not find in Lao-Tse or the Bhagavad-gita or the Prophet Isaiah? John Steinbeck — Sweet Thursday) no -, no line break, etc. Anyway: this line breaking is really ugly. I can fix this by hand, but I'd rather have this working automatically. My second problem is that I get two empty numbered pages between chapters. As in page 13: last text of chapter 1 page 14: empty page with page number page 15: empty page with page number page 16: page with quote and no page number page 17: first page of chapter 2 no page number I'd like to get rid of pages 14 and 15. I think I need to only do a page=left when I am on a right page at that time (page=even has the same result) Thanks, G