Hi, it seems this thread got lost. For it describes a quite ugly phenomenon I dare to post it again again. Please, have a look at this 3-page example: \newdimen\XVertikal \XVertikal=12pt \setupbodyfont[postscript,10pt] \setupinterlinespace[line=\XVertikal] \setuplayout [width=113mm,height=48\XVertikal, backspace=20mm,topspace=15mm, header=\XVertikal,headerdistance=0.5\XVertikal, footer=3.5\XVertikal,footerdistance=0pt, location=middle,marking=on,grid=yes] \showframe \showgrid \showgridboxes \showstruts \starttext \dorecurse{10}{\input ward\footnote{\input tufte \relax}} \stoptext On page 2 the bottom most line slips down lower than on the other pages. I observed this behavior in a 450 pages book and the amount the bottom line goes down when footnotes a split is always the same. Is this because of unhappy values in setuplayout or is it a bug? Steffen