Another of those 'not sure if I'm confused' examples: \setuphead[title][header=none] \starttext \title{Hello} \dorecurse{15}{\input tufte} \stoptext With header=empty, it worked as I expected: The first page had no page number in the header and the other pages had a page number. Then I tried the example above, with its header=none, so that the first page would allocate no space for the header (as well as have no page number). But then no pages, not only the first, allocated the header space. Is there a subtle difference between header=none and header=empty making the first one a global setting but the second one local to the page with the title (the local behavior is what I had wanted)? It's probably a related confusion or bug, but an alternative solution (from http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2005/009180.html) using \definelayout[1] also produced a global layout change: \definelayout[1][height=7in] \starttext \title{Hello} \dorecurse{15}{\input tufte} \stoptext This is all with ConTeXt ver: 2006.10.24 13:47 (same results on the live context). Any hints appreciated! -Sanjoy