My MWE below produces this pdf. My problem is that on page 2, the body text flows beyond its frame and into the footer distance. Regards, Peter MWE: \setuppapersize[A4][A3,landscape] \setuparranging[2SIDE] \showframe \definelayout[mypage][footerdistance=100mm, ] \definelayout[odd][reset] % ?? \definelayout[even][reset] \starttext \dorecurse{3}{\input{knuth} } % change to \dorecurse{2} - it works properly \definelayout[2][mypage] \dorecurse{2}{\input{knuth} } \placefigure [leftmargin] {} {\externalfigure[greybox][width=\leftmarginwidth]} \dorecurse{5}{\input{knuth} } \stoptext ------------------------------------------------------------