On 10/8/2018 18:32, Hans Hagen wrote:

Alas, it is fixed for that particular occurence, but it still occurs 29 times in the document (using today's beta).

A more extended search shows that there are also spaces afters en-dashes (in "Press|–|Citizen" and  in "Miniatur|–|Bibliothek der Deutschen Classiker"), but none after em-dashes. Unfortunately, my attempts to reproduce this in a smaller document have so far failed.

well, you know: no mwe, no solution

And here is the mwe. The culprit, it appears, is bidi. I have tried all documented options (but not all combinations) for \setupdirections, and the only one under which there is no problem is "off". With bidi active, there is a spurious space wherever a linebreak is introduced. As the example demonstrates, this is not a function of the compounds, but of hyphenation in general.

\setupbackend     [export=yes]
\setupdirections  [bidi=on]
\starttext
abraca% adjust to cause hyphenation with your textwidth
abra|-|cadabra abra|-|cadabra abra|-|cadabra abra|-|cadabra
abra|-|cadabra abra|-|cadabra abra|-|cadabra abra|-|cadabra
abra|-|cadabra abra|-|cadabra abra|-|cadabra abra|-|cadabra
abra-cadabra abra-cadabra abra-cadabra abra-cadabra
abra-cadabra abra-cadabra abra-cadabra abra-cadabra
abra-cadabra abra-cadabra abra-cadabra abra-cadabra
\stoptext

(The problem appears in the export html/xml file, not in the pdf.)

Not a function of explicit compounds (||) but of hyphenation of compounds. Normal hyphenation does not bring about the problem.

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RIk