I’m finishing a book in ConTeXt. The publisher is pretty happy with the results.
When opting for paragraph indents, paragraphs following directly after a headline should no show the indent.
I guess that the first line of chapter/section/subsection should have no indent.
I have e.g.
\setuphead[chapter]
[style=\ss\tfc, before={\blank[1cm]\startframedtext[width=local, foregroundcolor=black, background=color, backgroundcolor=bgGrey1, framecolor=bgGrey2,offset=0.25cm,
rulethickness=0.05cm, frame=off, topframe=on, bottomframe=on]\crlf},after={\stopframedtext\blank[4cm]}]