Hi Leah,
I was typesetting some German text on a narrow page when I discovered the justification wasn't as good as expected. I think I tracked this down to differences in hyphenation points, namely, ConTeXt has fewer:
\starttext \language[de] \showhyphens{Zusammenhang} \showhyphens{anderswo} \showhyphens{anderswoher} \stoptext
This shows languages > hyphenation > show: Zusam[-||]men[-||]hang languages > hyphenation > show: anderswo languages > hyphenation > show: anders[-||]wo[-||]her
Babel/ngerman sets left/righthyphenmin to 2/2, but ConTeXt sets those to 3/3 for German. (The English default is 2/3). I don't speak German so I have no idea which is correct, but you can get the same behaviour in ConTeXt with: \mainlanguage[de] \lefthyphenmin=2 \righthyphenmin=2 \starttext \showhyphens{Zusammenhang} \showhyphens{anderswo} \showhyphens{anderswoher} \stoptext which gives: languages > hyphenation > show: Zu[-||]sam[-||]men[-||]hang languages > hyphenation > show: an[-||]ders[-||]wo languages > hyphenation > show: an[-||]ders[-||]wo[-||]her -- Max