Idris brings up protrusion. I don't see his particular problem, but it provides a good test bed (see doc text inline): \setupoutput[pdftex]% \setupfontsynonym[cmr10][handling=normal] \usetypescript[cmr] \setupbodyfont[10pt] \setupalign[hanging] \setuplayout[width=4.2in] \showframe \starttext \dorecurse{40}{testing\hyphen\ test\hyphen\ } \blank \dorecurse{40}{testing- test- } \blank \dorecurse{40}{testing\endash\ test\endash\ } \blank \dorecurse{40}{testing-- test-- } %D Which is fine. But this sort of thing has always bothered me: \blank \dorecurse{40}{testing||\ test||\ } %D However, this is my current working hack (I prefer this %D stretched compound hyphen to the current, overlapping one): \definecharacter compoundhyp {\scale[sx=1.5]{\hyphen}} \installdiscretionaries || \compoundhyp \blank \dorecurse{40}{testing||\ test||\ } \stoptext So I wanted to run this past you all. Is this a bad idea on any level? -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay, Computing Dept. atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk Lancaster University, InfoLab21 +44(0)1524/510.514 Lancaster, LA1 4WA, UK Fax:+44(0)1524/510.492 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-