On Tue, 12 Jan 2016 21:07:38 +0100
Hans Hagen
The startalignment applies to the preceding text, too. Strange... It’s a normal behaviour for TeX, the question is should \startalignment end the previous paragraph or not.
when tex breaks a paragraph into lines the current values of relevant parameters is used (left and right skips, spacing, etc)
I guess that I do not know TeX well-enough to understand why your MWE below gives different line breaks. \starttext \bgroup \raggedright \input tufte \par \egroup \bgroup \raggedright \input tufte \egroup \par \stoptext From a practical point-of-view, what would be the "correct" way of achieving the following (i.e. no paragraph breaks): \setupwhitespace [big] \starttext \input tufte \\ \startframed [frame=off,offset=0pt,before=,after=,width=\textwidth,align=middle] \input ward \stopframed \\ \input dawkins \stoptext Alan