Gerben Wierda wrote:

\def\ClearChapterQuote{\def\ChapterQuote{}} \ClearChapterQuote \def\ChQuoteFormat#1{\starttext% \startalignment[left]% \startnarrower[4*left] \noindent{\nohyphens\em #1}% \stopnarrower\stopalignment\stoptext\blank} \setuphead[chapter] [page=left, before={\ChQuoteFormat{\ChapterQuote}\noheaderandfooterlines% \page[right]\blank[2*big]}, after={\ClearChapterQuote\blank[3*big]}% \noheaderandfooterlines]

You should definitely not have the \starttext / \stoptext pair in there. There should only be one of those in an entire run - they come at the start of your content and the end. The following, tested on Live, produces something which looks like it might be what you're after: -- \def\ClearChapterQuote{\def\ChapterQuote{}} \ClearChapterQuote \def\ChQuoteFormat#1{% \startalignment[{left,nothyphenated}]% \startnarrower[4*left]\em #1% \stopnarrower\stopalignment\blank} \setuphead[chapter] [page=left, before={\ChQuoteFormat{\ChapterQuote}\noheaderandfooterlines% \page[right]\blank[2*big]}, after={\ClearChapterQuote\blank[3*big]}% \noheaderandfooterlines] \starttext \def\ChapterQuote{Something quite long so that we can tell whether or not hyphenation has occurred, hopefully this will do.} \chapter{test} Some text \stoptext -- Duncan