Hello, With \setcharacterspacing[reset] I get the following error: ! Missing number, treated as zero. <to be read again> \relax l.5 \setcharacterspacing[reset] But no problem with \doresetattribute{spacing}. Test file: % engine=luatex \setcharacterspacing[frenchpunctuation] \starttext bla: bla\blank \setcharacterspacing[reset] %\doresetattribute{spacing} bla: bla \stoptext Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/