Hello ConTeXist, For some reason I need to use \placefigure environment in such a way that no space are before and after this environment (eg space for image caption under image). I want to hit as a result of using \externalfigure separately only. Can this be arranged? I tried \removelastskip, \removeunwantedspaces etc, but without success. Thanks Jaroslav. Here is my example ... \starttext \input knuth % here is no blank in PDF document \externalfigure[cow] % here is no blank in PDF document \input knuth % <- Here is blank before image and I can remove it, so it was like in the previous example \placefigure[here]{none}{\externalfigure[cow]} % <- Here is blank under image (for caption of figure) and I can remove it, so it was like in the previous example \input tufte \stoptext