Dear Thomas, Luigi and Hans, my second sample might be related to the first one. But I’m not sure it is a bug. Here is the code: \setuppapersize[A8] \newcounter\MyCounter \def\CritApp#1#2{\increment\MyCounter% \startlinenote[Varia:\MyCounter]{#1] #2}#1% \prewordbreak\stoplinenote[Varia:\MyCounter]} \starttext \startlinenumbering \startlinenote[one]{hyphenated}this is a test on \startlinenote[two]{with nested linenote}hyphenation\prewordbreak\stoplinenote[two]\stoplinenote[one] \CritApp{this is a test on \CritApp{hyphenation}{nested linenote: bad line number}}{not hyphenated} \stoplinenumbering \stoptext A command such as \CritApp above is intended to generate all linenote references automagically. It works fine, but I cannot nest \CritApp linenotes. The problem is in within this line: \startlinenote[Varia:\MyCounter]{#1] #2}#1% If I replace "{#1] #2}#1" with {#2}#1, nesting \CritApp linenotes, everything works as expected. Is this a bug? Many thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk