Am 09.07.2014 um 17:57 schrieb H. Özoguz :

Adding one information: In TeX \brokenpenalty=10000 should do the job. But this is ignored in ConText. In this a bug?

ConTeXt integrated the penalty setups in the layout mechanism, you can create your own settings but you should apply them with \setuplayout. To create your own setting use the following method. Use the setups environment where the values are set, the default parameters can be loaded with \directsetup{*reset}. \startsetups[mypenalties] \directsetup{*reset} \widowpenalty\plustenthousand \stopsetups In the next step you load this setup with the \setuplayout command: \setuplayout[setups=mypenalties] When you don want to create you own setting you can choose between two predefined ones (the * is part of the name): - *default (which uses different values in grid mode) - *strict Wolfgang