On 7 Mar 2025, at 23:07, Rik Kabel <ConTeXt@rik.users.panix.com> wrote:

I am stumped trying to eliminate the extra vertical space in the following example. Can anybody point out where it is coming from and, more importantly, how to eliminate it. All lines should be on the grid, but the paragraphs environment clearly is introducing extra space (or removing it). 

\setuplayout[grid=top] seems to fix both the vertical spacing and the subsequent alignment in your MWE.

Thank you, Bruce. I ended up going to a different mechanism completely since I only need text in the second column, and that simplified things elsewhere as well.

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Rik