Hi Dirar and others, the sample pdf has the following problem: | | | l’expression | | | th word(s) "l'expression" stick into the right margin. This is (I guess) due to the following facts: 1) TeX will use the right margin for words if the other solution for a line breaking problem would be to stretch the innerword spacing. TeX has complicated rules for determining the "badness" of a solution, the badness of stretching in your case is obviously higher then the badness of sticking into the margin. You have to play with TeX's parameters to decrease the badness of interword spacing (but see also 2)). In your case you set \tolerance to 200, which is very intolerant :-) So, for an example, say \tolerance 8000 (or use the ConTeXt way like \setuptolerance[verytolerant] -- never do this in a real world text!). Then your text should look ugly again, but in another way. There are quite few parameters for interfering TeXs paragraph builder. 2) TeX should hyphenate the word "expression" in some way, but doesn't do it. I am not sure where the allowed breakpoints are, but you might want to tell TeX. Perhaps "expression" can be hyphenated but "l'expression" not. But I don't know what to do here, other french writers should help you with that problem. Use \showhypens{....} to find out about the hypenation places. There is no magic to your problem :-) Patrick -- ConTeXt wiki: http://contextgarden.net