Hello, I am currently writing my paper for last year's BachoTeX proceedings. I am using tugboat.mkxl module to design the layout. In bachotex proceedings, the author's data and abstract are on a single column and the article is usually typeset on two columns. Comments in tugboat.mkxl states: %D We have several column mechanisms and they all serve a different purpose. Here we %D use pagecolumns. They support much of what we can do in single columns, but of %D course there are exceptions. Floats can go into columns of aremoved to the top or %D bottom when there is no room. We don't span mid column. Notes can go in columns %D or at the end. We can start with a single column (for titles and such). I can't figure out which part of the file should be used/adapted to start with a single column. What I did is to put datas and abstract in a frame and use \placefigure. As stated in pagecolumns manual, everything is put on the top of next page. (BTW, there is a typo: «of aremoved») I don't know, whether this MWE helps is relevant, but just in case, here is what I did: * copy tugboat.mkxl to a new file p-bachotex.mkxl * changed p-bachotex.mkxl like this: \startsetups bachotex:naglowek:columns \defineframedtext [Dane] \setupframedtext [Dane] [width=18cm , align=normal, frame=no] \definenarrower [Streszczenia] [2*middle] \startplacefigure [location={here,none}] {\startDane {\tfa\getvariable{tugboat}{author}}\par \getvariable{tugboat}{address}\par {\tt\getvariable{tugboat}{email}}\par \startStreszczenia \doifelsebufferempty {abstract} { % no abstract } { \blank[line] \enforced\let\\\endgraf \setups[tugboat:abstract:setup] \startAbstracts[title={Abstract}] \stopAbstracts } \stopStreszczenia \stopDane} \stopplacefigure \stopsetups \startsetups tugboat:article:start \starttext \setups{tugboat:columns:presets} \setups{tugboat:banner:setup:\getvariable{tugboat}{type}} \setupheadertexts [\setups{tugboat:banner:text:article}] [pagenumber] \setuppagenumber [number=\getvariable{tugboat}{page}] \startmode[columns] \startpagecolumns \stopmode \setups[tugboat:introduction:article] \doifmodeelse{columns}{ \setups{bachotex:naglowek:columns} } { \setups{bachotex:naglowek:nocolumns} } \stopsetups My article begins so: \enablemode [columns] \usemodule [bachotex] % skipped tugboat variables for this MWE \StartAbstract \input tufte \StopAbstract \StartArticle \input knuth \StopArticle Thank you for your help Damien T