If you have many marginals, they tend to conflict. The option stack=yes should enhance the situation. I don’t expect wonders – if there’s not enough space, then ConTeXt can’t solve it. But it used to work better, as I can see in my magazines from the last years. Now I can’t see a difference between stack=yes or no: \usemodule[visual] \useMPlibrary[dum] \setupmargindata[inmargin][stack=yes] \starttext \dorecurse{20}{% \fakewords{5}{30} \inmargin{\externalfigure[dummy\recurselevel][width=15mm,height=15mm]} \fakewords{5}{40}\par } \stoptext Hraban