Hello, For a multilingual document, alternating one language or another, not necessarily a bilingual, translated text, I thought about using textbackground to set-off paragraphs. This technique could also apply to a single language text having multiple levels of information, perhaps statements followed by discussion, etc. A problem appears with respect to footnotes that I do not know how to handle. If the backgrounded text goes across pages placing footnotes, then the footnote also gets the background. This is incorrect, perhaps a bug. Second problem, if a footnote of a backgrounded text gets placed on a following page, then it may not get a background. (It is not clear to me whether it would be correct for footnotes to get the background or not.) Of course, a solution to this secondary problem might be before={\startlocalfootnotes}, after={\placelocalfootnotes\stoplocalfootnotes}, although such a solution would postpone backgrounded footnotes to the end of the backgrounded text. Alan MWE: \definetextbackground [spanish] [location=paragraph, frame=off, before={\language[es]}, background=color, backgroundcolor=lightgray] \starttext \input darwin% \startfootnote \input dawkins \stopfootnote \input tufte \startspanish \input quevedo-es% \startfootnote \input cervantes-es \stopfootnote \stopspanish \input zapf \stoptext