I'm giving ConTeXt a first go in typesetting a diploma. I've figured out that I'd like to try to typeset to a five-column grid. Most of the stuff should be centered against the third column, while some stuff should be centered to the second and fourth column. This makes for a very boring diploma, but that's beside the point at this stage. I want 1-inch borders throughout, so before \starttext, I have \setuplayout[paperheight=29.97cm,paperwidth=21cm,leftmargin=1cm,rightmargin=1cm,header=1cm,footer=1cm,textwidth=19cm,textheight=27.97cm] (I pretend that marginpars don't exist. I'm sure they'll come back and haunt me). Furthermore, before \starttext, I set up the layers I think I need with \setuplayout[grid=yes,columndistance=12pt,columns=5]\showgrid \definelayer [text] \setupbackgrounds [text] [background=text] (The showgrid is there because I like to see what I'm doing). Then I have, say, \setlayer[text][column=3,line=7]{Diploma awarded to} what do I say in order to have the text centered relative to the column? and on a sitenote, I'd like to have a frame around the entire page. Preferably, I'd like to be able to place it using numerical coordinates (absolute or relative, set to a layer or not). Is this, or something close to it, possible? thank you, -- Rolf Lindgren http://www.roffe.com/ roffe@tag.uio.no