I also think the problem is caused by placing the floats to the nofloat cloumns block. Is there another way to this?
> 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:
In your example, just make a small change you will see the failure.
I attached the result pdf file.
\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
\input tufte
\startcolumns[n=2] \placefigure[here]{blabla}{\useMPgraphic{fig1}}
\column \placefigure[here]{blabla}{\useMPgraphic{fig1}}
\stopcolumns
\input tufte
\startcolumns[n=2] \placefigure[here]{blabla}{\useMPgraphic{fig1}}
\column \placefigure[here]{blabla}{\useMPgraphic{fig1}}
\stopcolumns
\input tufte
\stoptext
test.pdf
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