I think the curious string of numbers mentioned earlier are actually related to footnotes. The author for whatever reason prefers endnotes instead of true footnotes, and specified them in a block after all the chapters. So I defined footnotes thus: \setupfootnotes[location=none] so that I could generate the endnote numbers thus \footnote{} at the correct places in the text. Apparently Context stores these blank footnotes up and puts them at the end, even though [location=none] is specified. {location=high] doesn't seem to help either. So I will force them onto a blank page and strip off that page. This problem arose when I added an index to the end so I fell into the post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy. Sorry about that. The problem with page ranges in an index remains however. So I have come up with a kludge so that I can use my old reliable makeindex: \newwrite\ind \immediate\openout\ind=book.idx \input idx.tex \def\sidx#1{\write\ind{\\indexentry{#1}{\the\pageno}}} No one seems to be able to make eplain.tex work with Context so this is the best I can do in a hurry. John Culleton _________________________________________________________________ Need personalized email and website? Look no further. It's easy with Doteasy $0 Web Hosting! Learn more at www.doteasy.com