\placeinitial used to work but now does not with the latest beta. Try the example from http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Initials.
\setupinitial[color=red,font=Bold sa 4,distance=3pt,state=start,n=3] \starttext \placeinitial \input knuth \stoptext Alan
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