On Wed, 2012-02-01 at 01:15 +0100, luigi scarso wrote:

Do you have a small complete example ?

Sure: \definetextbackground[GeneralDocument][ location=paragraph, topoffset=1.0cm, bottomoffset=1.0cm, leftoffset=1.0cm, rightoffset=1.0cm, before={ \blank[2*big] }, after={ \blank[2*big] }, style=small, corner=round, frame=on] \starttext This is some text outside of a text background. \startGeneralDocument \dorecurse{10}{\input tufte \par \input knuth \par} \stopGeneralDocument This is more text outside of a text background. \stoptext -- Kip Warner -- Software Engineer OpenPGP encrypted/signed mail preferred http://www.thevertigo.com