Here is my minimum working example: \startuseMPgraphic{FunnyFrame}   picture p ; numeric w, h, o ;   p := textext.rt(\MPstring{FunnyFrame}) ;   w := OverlayWidth ; h := OverlayHeight ; o := BodyFontSize ;   p := p shifted (2o,h-ypart center p) ; draw p ;   drawoptions (withpen pencircle scaled 1pt withcolor black) ;   draw (2o,h)--(0,h)--(0,0)--(w,0)--(w,h)--(xpart urcorner p,h) ;   %draw boundingbox p ;   setbounds currentpicture to unitsquare xyscaled(w,h) ; \stopuseMPgraphic \defineoverlay[FunnyFrame][\useMPgraphic{FunnyFrame}] \defineframedtext[FunnyText][frame=off,background=FunnyFrame, width=\textwidth] \def\StartFrame{\startFunnyText} \def\StopFrame {\stopFunnyText } \def\FrameTitle#1% {\setMPtext{FunnyFrame}{\hbox spread 1em{\hss\strut#1\hss}}} \setMPtext{FunnyFrame}{} \define\sidebarA{%     \placefigure[none]{}{%         \FrameTitle{\strut \bf Title}%             \StartFrame%                 Text             \StopFrame%     }% }% \starttext     \startparagraph         \input knuth     \stopparagraph\reference[myrefA]{myrefA}          \sidebarA              \startparagraph         \input knuth     \stopparagraph \stoptext I need to make a reference to the box, which I call a sidebar. I've put \reference[myrefA]{myrefA} near it, so a cross-reference will say "See the sidebar on p. 2". The problem is, its creating a strange vertical space. If I put it anywhere in front of  \sidebarA, it makes a gap above the sidebar. And if I put it anywhere after \sidebarA, it puts the gap after. And if I put it inside, it causes some error and it lists as ?? instead of showing the page number. Note that this also happens with floats I have for pictures. The same problem is appearing! How do I get rid of the extra vertical gap that is appearing where I put my reference? --Joel