Hi, One can suppress hyphenation with: \setupalign[nothyphenated] but it has some limitations. The low level switches are \nohyphens and \dohyphens. Anyway, this mechanism has now been improved a bit: \starttext \startbuffer NEDERLANDS\par Nederlands\par nederlands\par \CONTEXT \par test\-test\par test-test \par \stopbuffer \blank \start \nl \hsize 2mm \getbuffer \stop \blank \blank \start \nl \hsize 2mm \nohyphens \getbuffer \stop \blank \startbuffer \nohyphens NEDERLANDS {\dohyphens Nederlands} nederlands\par \stopbuffer \blank \start \nl \hsize 2mm \getbuffer \stop \blank \startbuffer NEDERLANDS {\nohyphens Nederlands} nederlands\par \stopbuffer \blank \start \nl \hsize 2mm \getbuffer \stop \blank \stoptext We can (and probably will) add more granularity in this but now \nohyphens will also deal with explicit \discretionary (as used in the \CONTEXT definition) as well as \- and - in addition to the normal pattern driven hyphenation. It also obeys grouping. (this improvement concerns lmtx only) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------