Dear Hans, the following sample shows an already described issue with linenotes: \mainlanguage[es] \setuppapersize[A7] \starttext \startlinenumbering \startlinenote[MRU]{{\em om.} X}En un lugar de la Mancha, de cuyo nombre no quiero acordarme, no ha mucho tiempo que vivía un hidalgo de los de lanza en astillero, adarga antigua, rocín flaco y galgo corredor.\stoplinenote[MRU] \stoplinenumbering \stoptext Last word in body doesn’t get hyphenated. I know that this is something related to references. But in the meantime: wouldn’t it be possible that \stoplinenote internally includes a \prewordbreak command? Many thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk