Dear devs, When a figure is wrapped in a paragraph and that paragraph is the first in a section, ConTeXt adds spurious vertical space above the text (eyeballing it, I'd say it is \topskip). Find MWE with workaround below.
Found at https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/423817 Cheers, Henri --- \setupwhitespace[big] \starttext \startsection[title=section] \startmode[fix] % Set default whitespace \setupwhitespace[none] \stopmode \startplacefigure [location={right}, title={just a dummy figure}] \externalfigure[dummy][width=.5\textwidth] \stopplacefigure \input lorem \startmode[fix] % Restore whitespace \setupwhitespace[big] \stopmode \input lorem \stopsection \stoptext ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________