2012-11-14 Hans Hagen:
changing skips/kerns is always somewhat dangerous as one suddenly can get unwanted breaks ... is there a use case?
There is. Long description heads protrude into the margin. With the original definition I always have to manually check if that's the case, since the result is unacceptable. I use the proposed setting since two months for all my documents and for me it didn't break anything. \definedescription [description] [alternative=hanging, width=broad] \starttext \startdescription{conclusion that} \input knuth \stopdescription \startdescription{conclusion that the designer of a new system must not only be literally} \input knuth \stopdescription \stoptext The fix was actually proposed by Phillip. Marco