Dear list, the problem is hard to describe but TABLE breaking behaves in a weird way. Please try out the MWE below. It is reproducible on TL2016 and latest beta. Cheers, Henri --- MWE --- \starttext \dorecurse{10}{\input lorem} \startplacetable [ title={Landscape table}, %location={page,split,90}, location={split,90}, ] \startTABLE[split=repeat,option=stretch,textwidth=\textheight] \startTABLEhead \NC[nx=6,align=center] Beschriftung \NC\NR \stopTABLEhead \startTABLEnext \NC[nx=6,align=center] Beschriftung (Fortsetzung) \NC\NR \stopTABLEnext \startTABLEbody \dorecurse{50}{ \NC Merkmal \NC Daten \NC Daten \NC Daten \NC Daten \NC Daten \NC\NR } \stopTABLEbody \stopTABLE \stopplacetable \dorecurse{10}{\input lorem} \stoptext