Nikolai Weibull wrote:
\starttext \placefigure {\type{0|}} {} \stoptext
gives me
! Argument of \next has an extra }. <inserted text> \par <to be read again>
that's because the caption is passed as an argument and the catcode is frozen then (being active, the | expects something |...| ; try \type{0}\type{|} since the first token of type is not expanded at all Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------