This works for me, is probably not what you want, but at leat it's consistent (it uses the interline of the main text). \definestartstop[passus][ before={\startnarrower}, after={\stopnarrower}, style={\tfxx}, ] \starttext \subject{It looks OK here:} \input knuth \startnarrower \tfxx \input knuth \stopnarrower \subject{It does also here:} \input knuth \startpassus \input knuth \stoppassus \stoptext Andrés Conrado Montoya http://chiquitico.org