Dear gang, In the following example, margin kerning works for \hyphen and \endash, but not for `-' and `--'. I don't think this is an encoding problem, because e.g. \hyphen and `-' generate the same output. Please advise-) Thnx as always Idris =================================================== \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-- } \hyphen\ - \endash\ -- \stoptext =================================================== ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523