I have two questions to \margintext \setupinmargin[left][separator=:,width=2cm,line=2] \starttext %foo \margintext[left]{margin text} \input knuth \stoptext this works fine, but when I uncomment the line with %foo, then the marginal note is placed in second line of the following paragraph. Why? Must \margintext always be the first statement in a paragraph? I do not understand the meaning of the optional argument separator? TeXLive2010 with tlcontrib Herbert