If the following is run with newtexexec, the text background on the first page is black. On live.contextgarden.net it works ok. Another candidate for the test suite? \setupcolors[state=start] \definecolor[red][r=1] \definecolor[trwhite][s=1, t=.5, a=1] \setupbackgrounds[state=repeat] \defineoverlay[pagebg][\useMPgraphic{pagebg}] \setupbackgrounds[page][background=pagebg] \startuseMPgraphic{pagebg} StartPage ; fill Page withcolor \MPcolor{red} ; fill Field[Text][Text] withcolor \MPcolor{trwhite} ; StopPage ; \stopuseMPgraphic \starttext \dorecurse{10}{\input tufte} \stoptext -- Johan Sandblom N8, MRC, Karolinska sjh t +46851776108 17176 Stockholm m +46735521477 Sweden "What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite" - Bertrand Russell