List, Occasionally an unexpected and unwanted space is inserted following the hyphen of a compound word in html/xml exports. In a document with about 500 such compounds, this occurs 30 times. The following input: \setupbackend [export=yes,xhtml=yes] \starttext Theocracy, the priest power; monarchy, the one|-|man power; and oligarchy, the few|-|men power|—|are three forms of vicarious government over the people, perhaps for them, not by them. Democracy is direct self|-|government over all the people, for all the people, by all the people. Our institutions are democratic: theocratic, monarchic, oligarchic vicariousness is all gone. We have no Divine vicar who is responsible to God for our politics and religion; only a human attorney, answerable to the people for his official work. The axis of rotation has changed: the equator of the old civilization passes through the poles of the new. This makes some change in the geography of both Church and State. \stopsection \stoptext Produces, in relevant part, the following xml (wrapped for convenience): Theocracy, the priest power; monarchy, the one-man power; and oligarchy, the few- men power—are three forms of vicarious government over the people, perhaps for them, not by them. Democracy is direct self-government over all the people, for all the people, by all the people. Our institutions are democratic: theocratic, monarchic, oligarchic vicariousness is all gone. We have no Divine vicar who is responsible to God for our politics and religion; only a human attorney, answerable to the people for his official work. The axis of rotation has changed: the equator of the old civilization passes through the poles of the new. This makes some change in the geography of both Church and State.</document> Note the space after "few-" in the second line of the output text. (The paragraph is a quotation from Theodore Parker's sermon "The Effect of Slavery on the American People," delivered on July 4, 1858. It is thought by many to be the inspiration for part of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.) -- Rik