List, Can somebody suggest an export-friendly mechanism to put fixed lines into the margin? Use case: I am reproducing a 17th century text with marginal footnotes. I do not need a solution that works with both pdf and xml, but there is less mode fiddling if it does. This example: \setupbackend [export=yes] \starttext \subject{\tex{startlines} in margin} \startparagraph \margintext{\startlines abc def ghi jkl mno pqr \stoplines} \input knuth \stopparagraph \subject{\tex{crlf} in margin} \startparagraph \margintext{abc def\crlf ghi\crlf jkl\crlf mno pqr} \input knuth \stopparagraph \subject{\tex{\textbackslash} in margin} \startparagraph \margintext{abc def\\ ghi\\ jkl\\ mno pqr} \input knuth \stopparagraph \subject{\tex{startlines} in main flow} \startparagraph \startlines abc def ghi jkl mno pqr \stoplines \input knuth \stopparagraph \stoptext generates the following xml with \startlines and \crlf: <margintext detail="margintext" chain="margintext"><lines detail="lines" chain="lines"><line>abc def ghi jkl mno pqr</line></lines></margintext> and no <lines> element at all with \\, while it generates proper lines in the main flow: <lines detail="lines" chain="lines"><line>abc def</line><line>ghi</line><line>jkl</line><line>mno pqr</line></lines> I also note that \startlines in \margintext does not work in pdf output, but both \crlf and \\ do, and \bpar..\epar works in margintext for pdf output but breaks strangely in xml (the \epar ends the margintext element and the rest is set as body flow paragraphs). -- Rik