2011/9/29 Pierre-François Bonnefoi :

Hello Luigi, Wolfgang,

neither the first proposition, nor the second solves my problem, the size of the text area (textheight) is modified on the first page, but not well computed from the second page (it's stuck to the same value). Hm not here; this code looks ok

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \setuptolerance[verytolerant,stretch] \setuppapersize[A4][A4] \setuplayout[ backspace=3cm, topspace=1.5cm, rightmargin=0cm,leftmargin=1.3cm, width=15cm, leftmargindistance=0.2cm, height=fit, header=0cm, footer=1cm, ] \definelayout[1][ topspace=5.2cm, height=fit, ] \dorecurse{10000}{\definelayout[\the\numexpr 1+\recurselevel][]} \starttext \showframe \dorecurse{100} {\input knuth} \stoptext I can send the pdf offlist -- luigi