Hello list, I've found that \start ... \stoptabulate can be used to format parallel texts, with paragraphs that are synchronized and split well on different pages. I also found that they don't play well with widow-orphan penalties. Try this: \setuptabulate[split=yes] \starttext \setpenalties\widowpenalties{1}{10000} \setpenalties\clubpenalties{1}{10000} \starttabulate[|p|p|] \NC \dorecurse{3}{\input knuth} \NC \dorecurse{2}{\input knuth} \NC\NR \stoptabulate \stoptext The penalties' settings make some lines overlap. Comment out those two lines and everything works well. Not a great problem, since I don't think you need widow-orphan control in parallel texts. It took me some time to understand what was making lines overlap. So I leave it here for future reference, if someone else stumbles on the same problem.