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Lei Wang wrote:

> I have several small figures and want to place them in two columns
> as follows:
> [example snipped]

> [floats] seem to depend on the pagebreak and do not work all the
> time.  If there are a pagebreak before or after the block of these
> figures, it doesn't work well. 

I find floats difficult.  They do weird things.  I tried to create a
minimum file that shows your columns of figures behaving badly -- I
didn't succeed.  Here is the test file I created:

-----

\setupcolors [state=start]

\startuseMPgraphic{fig1}
w := 4cm ; h := 2cm ; ww := 1cm ; hh := 1.5cm ;
fill (0,0)--(0,h)--(w,h)--(w,0)--(ww,0)--(w,hh)--(ww,hh)--(ww,0)--cycle ;
\stopuseMPgraphic

\starttext

\input tufte

\startcolumns[n=2]
\placefigure[here]{blabla}{\useMPgraphic{fig1}}
\column
\placefigure[here]{blabla}{\useMPgraphic{fig1}}
\stopcolumns

\page

\startcolumns[n=2]
\placefigure[here]{blabla}{\useMPgraphic{fig1}}
\column
\placefigure[here]{blabla}{\useMPgraphic{fig1}}
\stopcolumns

\input tufte

\stoptext

%%% Local Variables:
%%% mode:context
%%% End:

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You may have to post a more complete example that demonstrates where
ConTeXt is behaving badly.