Hi Hans, textbackground does not honour topoffset/bottomoffset at pagebreak. Is this by design? \definetextbackground [test] [ location=paragraph, rulethickness=1pt, leftoffset=1em, topoffset=5cm, bottomoffset=5cm] % For test purposes \starttext \starttextbackground[test] \dorecurse{15}{\input knuth \endgraf} \stoptextbackground \stoptext Is there some parameter to adjust the offset before and after a pagebreak. (I want them to be same as bottomoffset and topoffset.) Or should I take care of this in mpos:par:columnset with something like (pseudo code) if nofmultipars > 1 draw multipars[1] enlarge bottom by bottomoffset; for i = 2 upto nofmultipars: draw multipars[i] enlarge top by topoffset enlarge bottom by bottomoffset; endfor; endif; Or is there some easier way to just I influence boxfilloffset for do_draw_par in core-mp.tex? Thanks, Aditya -- Aditya Mahajan, EECS Systems, University of Michigan http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~adityam || Ph: 7342624008