Hi, This has bugged me for a number of years and I have only just realised the exact cause. Previous requests to solve table and figure spacing problems are all due to this I think. Basically the hyperreference in the first character of a paragraph mangles the paragraph formatting. Below is a minimum (I think) file which demonstrates the problem very clearly. \setupinteraction[state=start] \setupwhitespace[big] \starttext \input tufte \startbuffer[] \bTABLE[width=2.5in] \bTR \bTD \input tufte \eTD\eTR \eTABLE \stopbuffer \placetable [right] [tab:1] {A Table} {\getbuffer[]} \input tufte \in{Table}[tab:1] this paragraph does not format correctly because the hypereference is at the first character of the paragraph. Note that the spacing (before) is incorrect as well as the width. T\in{able}[tab:1] this paragraph does format correctly because the hypereference is not using the first character of the paragraph. \input tufte \stoptext TIA Nigel King