Worst case became true: After spending lot of time on defining and setting up my first ConTeXt project I had to encounter that there are orphans and widows in my book. What I did: Just before \starttext I wrote \clubpenalty=10000 \widowpenalty=10000 \displaywidowpenalty=10000 Is this wrong - or is it a bug in ConTeXt? Kind of desperately, Steffen