Many thanks, Wolfgang, for your quick and complete solution to my riddle. As Hans has commented, it is really brilliant. I must confess that I do not understand yet the substance of it, i.e. the definition itself of *Fleuron*, but I will keep studying it and will end for getting it, I hope. For the moment I have analyzed and elaborated a bit on your example, first and mostly by commenting it, but also by slightly modifying it so that it shows more clearly the characteristics of your solution. I attach it here just in case it could be as helpful for someone else as it has been for me. Many thanks again and good luck! Francisco % Fleuron.tex % Example script of the creation and use of a documental ornament % We first define the documental ornament % under the traditional name of *Fleuron* % in the way brilliantly formulated by Herr Schuster \def\Fleuron {\par \leaders\vbox to \lineheight{I am the \em Fleuron\em}\vfil} % and create a page 10 lines high for testing its behaviour \setuplayout[lines=10] % We put *Context* to work \starttext % Method 1 (really?) % Typesetting the ornament as the first element of the page % results disappointing: it just does not show up \Fleuron % but other texts that follow it get their normal treatment; % for instance, this sentence I am not really the start:\par \ \ \ the \em Fleuron\em\ went before me\par % or this automatically generated text \dorecurse{4}{Line \recurselevel\par} % Even the *Fleuron* is treated the same, % if it is the last element of this page \Fleuron % so we create a new page and repeat the same % instructions \page I am not really the start:\par \ \ \ the \em Fleuron\em\ went before me\par \dorecurse{4}{Line \recurselevel\par} \Fleuron I am after the \em Fleuron\em\ % surprisingly, although there is room available, % the ornament disappears % if there is more text coming after it % so we go to another page, the third one, % for our last and definitive test \page % This time the space of the page is full \dorecurse{10}{Line \recurselevel\par} % when the turn of the *Fleuron* arrives \Fleuron % The result is that not only the *Fleuron* does not show up % in this page, which was to be expected because it is full, % but even the implied next page, the fourth, % does not get generated by *Context*. PERFECT! \stoptext