Hello, I have a small problem which nevertheless took already my whole day ... I'm on a multicolumn page and I have to put (numberd) figures in the textflow, at a fix position relative to the text (in this case). No sidefloats. Problem: The vertical space between the float and the following text (= after the float) is way too big. I put the floats with "force"; with "here" its even worse: I get an additional empty space *above* the float. Concerning the different column methods i noticed the following: \startcolumns: I can influence the vertical space (in general) with e.g. "blank=4pt" in the setups. This solves my problem for the moment, but is a bit ugly, because all spaces seem to be affected, also the predefined caption innerspace(!) \startcolumnset: I couldn't find any solution at all, unless grouping everything in \startpacked ...\ \stoppacked, but this of course removes every and any space. The "blank"-option isn't present in columnsets, right? Side question: While trying all this i noticed also that the v-spacing is perfect when i just use "\externalfigure ..." (without place...). But malheureusement I need the captions. Is there any way to get captions with \externalfigure (without float thingies), maintainig/ integrating in the numbering of the "normal" floating figures? I would really appreciate if anybody could show me how to adjust/ eliminate this ugly (faulty?) after float space without disturbing the whole whitespacing on the page. Thanks in advance, Tom (Greetings from Lake Léman) Here is a some kind of a minimal (not very proper nor cleaned, but it compiles on context-live and it shows what i'm talking about): % coding: utf-8 \enableregime [utf] \useencoding[fde] \mainlanguage[de] \setuphyphenmark[sign=normal] \setuppapersize [A5,landscape] [A5,landscape] \setupbodyfont [9pt] \defineitemgroup [Leg] \setupitemgroup [Leg] [each] [stopper=, before={\setupwhitespace[none]\blank[medium]\ss}, style={\ssbf}, inbetween={\blank[small]}, after={\blank[medium]}, width=1em, symalign=flushleft, headstyle=italic] [n, packed, ] \setupfloats [spaceafter=none] \setupcaptions [style=\ssx\it\setupinterlinespace, width=max, headstyle=\vii\bfx, align=justified,location=bottom, inbetween={\blank[medium]}, spaceafter=none] \setupcolumns [% blank=4pt, balance=no, tolerance=verytolerant] \definecolumnset [NormalThree] [n=3] \setupcolumnset [NormalThree] [balance=no, %blank=4pt, <-- no effect tolerance=verytolerant] % \showboxes \starttext \startcolumnset [NormalThree]% <-- comment/uncomment to see the differences % \startcolumns[n=3]% <-- comment/uncomment to see the differences \placefigure[force]{one line} {\externalfigure[frontk:mitte][width=\textwidth,height=\textheight]} \column \subsection{Frontkonsole~-- Mitte} \startLeg \item Heizung Heck-, Front- und Seitenscheiben \item Außenspiegelheizung (Option) \item Zigarettenanzünder 24\,V \item 24||V||Steckdose \item Zusatzheizung (Option) \item Ventilator mit \textellipsis \item Temperaturregler \item Aschenbecher \stopLeg \subsection{Multifunktionshebel} \placefigure[force]{one line} {\externalfigure[mufuhe:li][width=\textwidth,height=60pt]} \startpacked\ss {\it Drücken:} \startLeg[intro] \item Hupe \stopLeg {\it Drehen:} \startLeg[intro,continue] \item Licht aus \item Standlicht \item Fahrlicht: \startitemize [4] \item {\it Hebel mittig:} Abblendlicht \item {\it Hebel unten:} Fernlicht \item {\it Hebel nach oben:} Lichthupe \stopitemize \stopLeg {\it Schieben:} \startLeg[intro,continue] \item Blinker \startitemize [4] \item {\it Hebel vorne:} rechts \item {\it Hebel hinten:} links \stopitemize \stopLeg \stoppacked \placefigure[force]{one line} {\externalfigure[mufuhe:re][width=\textwidth,height=60pt]} \startpacked\ss {\it Drücken:} \startLeg [intro] \item Scheibenwaschanlage \stopLeg {\it Drehen:} \startLeg [intro,continue] \item Scheibenwischer Intervall \item Scheibenwischer aus \item Scheibenwischer Stufe 1 \item Scheibenwischer Stufe 2 \stopLeg \stoppacked % \stopcolumns% <-- comment/uncomment to see the differences \stopcolumnset % <-- comment/uncomment to see the differences \stoptext