Dear cartel, Here is one for you-) If you uncomment the \setupindenting you will get an overfull hbox; a real nuisance when you have dozens of \inmargin's... Awaiting advice:-) Best Idris ====================================== \setupoutput[pdftex]% %\setupindenting[medium] \starttext \input knuth \inmargin{This is a test.} \stoptext ======================================== ================log===================== systems : begin file test at line 5 (c:\CONTEXT\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/sample/knuth.tex) Overfull \hbox (17.62474pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 7--7 [][] \hbox(10.41603+4.05064)x0.0 .\hbox(0.0+0.0)x17.62474 .\hbox(10.41603+4.05064)x0.0 ..\rule(10.41603+4.05064)x0.0 ..\glue 0.0 plus 1.0fil minus 1.0fil .\penalty 10000 .\glue(\parfillskip) 0.0 plus 1.0fil .\glue(\rightskip) 0.0 =========================================== ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523