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18 Mar
2012
18 Mar
'12
4:55 p.m.
It took me quite a while to hunt this down... The use of a text background breaks \placeinitial. I do not have a patch, but at least can provide a minimal example: \definetextbackground [SetOff] [location=paragraph] \starttext \placeinitial \input tufte \startSetOff \input ward \stopSetOff \stoptext