On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 10:11 PM, Meer, H. van der <H.vanderMeer@uva.nl>wrote:

>  The space around formula with \placeformula is a bit too large to my
> taste, even in the case of \setupformulae[spaceafter=small]. Because
> setting this to 0pt didn't make much difference, I had to resort to
> spaceafter=-1ex. Why is there seemingly always such a large space around
> the formula? Why not a much tighter boundary?
>
> spacebefore and spaceafter are
\blank[p_spacebefore]
and
\blank[p_spaceafter]
so if you setup blank
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/setupblank
than also setup the space around the formula.
-- 
luigi