Hello, sorry for repeating this topic, maybe it's not too attractive. Please, have a look to the following problem. I wonder why the behaviour described bellow occurs and how to typeset a paragraph starting with some text enclosed into {\em ...} group inside the "free" area formed (affected) by \placefigure. --- \starttext \placefigure [left,none] {} { \startMPcode draw (0,0)--(6cm,6cm); \stopMPcode } This is a normal text -- it flows around the picture on the left side of the page as expected. {\em This empathized text starting a new paragraph} should not scratch the picture left. When some text contains {\em an empathized text inside the paragraph}, text flows normally as expected. \input tufte \stoptext --- Thank you in advance. Best regards Lukas -- Ing. Lukáš Procházka [mailto:LPr@pontex.cz] Pontex s. r. o. [mailto:pontex@pontex.cz] [http://www.pontex.cz] Bezová 1658 147 14 Praha 4 Tel: +420 244 062 238 Fax: +420 244 461 038