Ciro Soto wrote:

I am writing a book with poems and need to maintain four, sometimes five, lines together in the same page. I don't know in advance which four lines will be split at the end of the page. How would I implement this?

Using \testpage[n] works, only if I know in advance where the the split happens.

add this to your local cont-new.tex file (after \protect): \def\startlines {\@@rgbefore \pushmacro\checkindentation \whitespace %\page[\v!preference]} gaat mis na koppen, nieuw: later \nobreak \begingroup \setupindenting[\@@rgindenting]% \typesettinglinestrue \setupwhitespace[\v!none]% \obeylines \ignorespaces \gdef\afterfirstobeyedline % tzt two pass, net als opsomming {\gdef\afterfirstobeyedline {\nobreak \doifnot\@@rgoption\v!packed{\global\let\afterfirstobeyedline\relax}}}% \def\obeyedline {\par \futurelet\next\dobetweenthelines}% \activatespacehandler\@@rgspace \GotoPar} \def\dobetweenthelines {\doifmeaningelse\next\obeyedline {\@@rginbetween} {\afterfirstobeyedline}} \setuplines [\c!option=, \c!before=\blank, \c!after=\blank, \c!inbetween=\blank, \c!indenting=\v!no, \c!space=\v!default] -- -- -- -- test: (the packed option is new) \setuplines[indenting={yes,medium,odd},option=packed] % no yes odd even \starttext \dorecurse{33}{test\par} \startlines first second third fourth first second third fourth first second third fourth first second third fourth \stoplines \stoptext ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------