===== Original Message From Hans Hagen ===== can you make me a minimal example showing the problem?

Sure, here are 2: both produce overfull hboxes. All the best Idris ====================================== \setupoutput[pdftex]% \setupindenting[medium] \starttext \input knuth \inmargin{This is a test.} \stoptext ======================================== ================log===================== systems : begin file test at line 5 (c:\CONTEXT\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/sample/knuth.tex) Overfull \hbox (17.62474pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 7--7 [][] \hbox(10.41603+4.05064)x0.0 .\hbox(0.0+0.0)x17.62474 .\hbox(10.41603+4.05064)x0.0 .\rule(10.41603+4.05064)x0.0 .\glue 0.0 plus 1.0fil minus 1.0fil .\penalty 10000 .\glue(\parfillskip) 0.0 plus 1.0fil .\glue(\rightskip) 0.0 =========================================== =========================================== \setupoutput[pdftex]% \definestartstop [quote] [before={\startnarrower[1*left,1*right]\blank[big]}, after={\stopnarrower\blank[big]}] \starttext \startquote \input knuth \inmargin{This is a test.} \stopquote \stoptext ============================================== ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523