Hi, I am preparing a rather large text, completely set in 3 columns, which has lots of text with grey backgrounds. During the preparation of this text, some questions came up : 1 - At first I put a grey background to my texts defining the following macros (they are used within columnsets): ===================================================================== %start setting the text with a light grey background \def\startlightgreybox{\setupframedtexts[frame=off, background=color, backgroundcolor=lightgrey, width=broad] \startframedtext {\bf Some frame title}} %stop setting the text with a light grey background \def\stoplightgreybox{\stopframedtext} ===================================================================== After a while, and to see what difference there was between both, I redefined both macros as : ======================================================================= = %start setting the text with a light grey background \def\startlightgreybox{\setupbackground[background=color, backgroundcolor=lightgrey] \startbackground {\bf Some frame title}} %stop setting the text with a light grey background \def\stoplightgreybox{\stopbackground} ======================================================================= == And to my surprise, I saw, that hyphenation works clearly better when my backgrounds are defined with the second set of macros, which is of course good news, especially when using 3 columns, but : is there an explanation for this behaviour ? 2 - Another problem I have with those backgrounds is the following : they seem to work well when the text spreads over several columns/pages, as long as I don't force a 'next column' in the text. The following piece of context causes a 'TeX capacity exceeded' error: \setupcolors[state=start] \definecolumnset[driekol][n=3] \setupbackground[background=color, backgroundcolor=gray] \starttext \startcolumnset[driekol] \startbackground this is the text I would like to have with a grey background \column and with a possibility to split columns ``manually'' when necessary \stopbackground \stopcolumnset \stoptext In the rare cases where I want to force a jump to the next column, I replace the \column command with: \stopbackground \column \startbackground Is this the only way to force column jumps when using backgrounds ? Thanks, Geert