Adam Lindsay wrote:

Hi all,

What's happening here?

\setupcolors[state=start] \starttext \startTEXpage \dorecurse{2}{abc\godown[0pt]} \stopTEXpage \startTEXpage \startcolor[yellow] \dorecurse{2}{abc\godown[0pt]} \stopcolor \stopTEXpage \stoptext

a long story ... to which ttp wizzard taco might want to add comment ok, a fix first (missing \fi) \def\godown[#1]% {\relax \ifhmode\endgraf\fi \ifvmode\nointerlineskip\vskip#1\relax\fi} what you observe is some interference; the fitting page macros use framed and when you set width and height to fit, it will use the reshaperr to determine the width; this mechanism fails as soon as nodes show up that cannot be \un-whatevered or \last-whatevered; also, some mechanisms have as side effect that they force the box to have a width of \hsize question for taco: how difficult would it be to have something: \squeezebox\scratchbox where the result is a box with a width equal to the max(natural width of lines) (that way we could replace the reshaper and get around those interfering and blocking nodes) you may see some of the side effects when you play with: \starttext \setupcolors[state=start] \startTEXpage \dorecurse{2}{abc\godown[0pt]} \stopTEXpage \startTEXpage[foregroundcolor=yellow] \dorecurse{2}{abc\godown[0pt]} \stopTEXpage \startTEXpage \startcolor[red]\dorecurse{2}{abc\godown[0pt]}\stopcolor \stopTEXpage \startTEXpage[width=fixed] \startcolor[green]\dorecurse{2}{abc\godown[0pt]}\stopcolor \stopTEXpage \startTEXpage[width=fixed] \dorecurse{2}{\startcolor[cyan]abc\stopcolor\godown[0pt]} \stopTEXpage \startTEXpage \dorecurse{2}{\startcolor[magenta]abc\stopcolor\godown[0pt]} \stopTEXpage \startTEXpage \vbox{\startcolor[blue]\dorecurse{2}{abc\godown[0pt]}\stopcolor} \stopTEXpage \stoptext so, there is no real solution unless you use the foreground color or box things yourself Hans