Thanks a lot  Wolfgang


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"This is a very complicated case, Maude. You know, a lotta ins, a lotta outs, a lotta what-have-yous." 
(Jeffrey 'The Dude' Lebowski)

> Your lack of a working minimal example makes it hard to give a solution

Sorry, I know, but I didn’t know to reproduce the situation.

> but adding changing the way how the frame is added should improve things.
> 
> \startsetups[section:andrea]
>     \ifconditional\headshownumber
>         \scratchdimenone\dimexpr\headnumberwidth+\headnumberdistance\relax
>         \scratchdimentwo\dimexpr\headnumberdistance\relax
>     \else
>         \scratchdimenone\zeropoint
>         \scratchdimentwo\zeropoint
>     \fi
>     \startframedtext[offset=0.25cm,loffset=\scratchdimenone,rulethickness=0.01cm,frame=off,bottomframe=on]
>         \dontleavehmode\llap{\headnumbercontent\hskip\scratchdimentwo}
>         \headtextcontent
>     \stopframedtext
> \stopsetups
> 


look likes it solves all the problems! I really have no idea of what’s going on here. Luckily this mailing list is super friendly.
Manuals are cool, but I always miss the big picture that would allow me to generalise over a problem!


Thanks

Best




> \defineheadalternative[section:andrea][alternative=vertical,renderingsetup=section:andrea]
> 
> \setuphead
>   [section]
>   [alternative=section:andrea,
>    numberwidth=1em,
>         before={\blank[0.5cm]},
>          after={\blank[1cm]}]
> 
> \starttext