Hello, The setting is lost in the header: \setcharacterspacing[frenchpunctuation] \setupheadertexts[bla: bla] \starttext bla: bla \stoptext Workaround: \setupheadertexts[{\setcharacterspacing[frenchpunctuation]bla: bla}] Cheers, Peter -- Contact information: http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/