Hello, I need to reduce vertical spacing around floats in columnset. I have tried \setupfloats command as in example below, but without succes. And what about columns balancing? I have read the columns.pdf manual, but I don't understand it clearly. [balance=yes] does not balance the columns even without the figures. regards Jan \definepapersize[poster][width=73cm,height=73cm] \setuppapersize[poster][oversized] \setuplayout[ header=0cm,footer=0cm, backspace=2.54cm,topspace=1.5cm, width=middle,height=middle, location=middle,marking=on] \setuppagenumbering[location=] \mainlanguage[en] \enableregime[utf8] \usetypescript[helvetica][ec] \setupbodyfont[helvetica,25pt] \setupindenting[always,small] \definecolumnset[cols][n=3,distance=1em,balance=yes] \setupfloats[frame=on,spacebefore=none,spaceafter=none,before=,after=] \starttext \showframe \startcolumnset[cols] \input knuth \input tufte \placefigure[][fig:stereoblock] {AAxxxm} {\externalfigure[xxx][width=0.8\textwidth]} \input knuth \input tufte \input knuth \input tufte \placefigure[][fig:stereoblock] {Axxxm} {\externalfigure[xxx][width=0.8\textwidth]} \input knuth \input tufte \stopcolumnset \stoptext -- Ing. Jan Pohanka Department of Measurement Faculty of Electrical Engineering Czech Technical University in Prague Technická 2, 16627 Praha 6 tel. 224352058 email: pohanj1@fel.cvut.cz