Thanks
for your contributions.
You are right in your remark about
the path to images, Wolfgang. I was not using any\setupexternalfigure[location=default]
I haven’t spent much time to check my code but its main pointUnfortunately the results of your rewrite of the macro are not so satisfactory. Surely it is more *ConTeXt*ual than mine but it fails to fulfill the main purpose of the exercice: it happily prints fleurons in blank pages, as running your tests with 6 lines demonstrates. In such a circumstance it should produce just two pages with six lines each, whereas it outputs 4 pages, the two additional ones containing only ornaments.instruction. With your formulations the figure is recovered without problem.Thanks for your contributions.You are right in your remark about the path to images, Wolfgang. I was not using any
\setupexternalfigure[location=default]