Hans Hagen
So should I always use the [page] background to anchor the layer?
[text][text] and [page] are repeated indeed
[page] is not repeated here: %output=pdf \showframe \setupbackgrounds[page][background=abspos] \setupbackgrounds[text][text][background=relpos] \definelayer[abspos][option=test, width=\paperwidth, height=\paperheight, ] \definelayer[relpos][option=test,position=yes] \starttext \input tufte \setlayer[abspos][x=1cm,y=1cm]{\bfd It Works!} \setlayer[relpos][offset=1cm]{really?} \input tufte \page \input tufte \setlayer[relpos][hoffset=1cm,voffset=-1cm]{What does it look like?} \input tufte \page \input tufte \stoptext layer relpos gets repeated, layer abspos not. Patrick (slightly confused)