Hello Wolfgang

Thanks for that - I thought there would probably be a way of manipulating a paragraph through some other mechanism, and the temporary alignment setting does the job.  (I'll investigate at some point how to do the reverse since sometimes one wants to lose a line, typically so that a footnote can be squeezed in.)

Best wishes

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On Tue, 24 Jun 2025 at 16:50, Wolfgang Schuster <wolfgang.schuster.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
Am 24.06.2025 um 17:00 schrieb John Was:
> Hello.  Is there a ConTeXt equivalent for plain TeX's \loosness (which
> allows the program to lengthening a paragraph, or shorten it if the
> number is negative). At the final stages of a book this is often useful
> for getting rid of unsightly gaps.

\showgrid

\starttext

\samplefile{zapf}

\page

\startalignment[normal,verytolerant,stretch,more]
\samplefile{zapf}
\stopalignment

\page

\startalignment[normal,verytolerant,stretch,2*more]
\samplefile{zapf}
\stopalignment

\stoptext

Wolfgang
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