Hello Hans, Hans Hagen wrote: > if a float is too wide it will be moved around; wide floats spanning > columns and text flowing around it is not one of the strong points of > normal columns At least I didn't overlook something simple :) Is there any easy fix to prevent the "table" from disapperaring when I uncomment the \input knuth? % -*- mode: context; coding: latin-9-unix; -*- \setuplayout [grid=yes] \definecolumnset[example] \setupfloat[table][width=\makeupwidth] \starttext \startcolumnset[example] \input knuth %\input knuth \placetable{Tabelle} \framed[width=\makeupwidth,height=4cm]{Hallo} \input knuth \input knuth \stopcolumnset \stoptext