Dear list, I have constructed a better example (and eliminated a grammar error), see below. I think what »|-|« does is essentially »-\penalty\zerocount\hskip\zeropoint«. When I insert this as is the margin kerning is correct. Still, I have no idea how to fix |-|. Cheers, Henri --- \showframe \setuppapersize[A6][A6] \definefontfeature [default][default] [protrusion=quality] \setupalign[hanging] \starttext % this is margin kerned Hyphenation of compound words is non-trivial % this should be margin kerned but isn't Hyphenation of compound words is non|-|trivial % this does the same as |-| (?) and kerns properly Hyphenation of compound words is non-\penalty\zerocount\hskip\zeropoint\relax trivial \stoptext On 09/08/2016 10:52 AM, Henri Menke wrote:

Dear list,

when writing compound words I want the second part to be eligible for hyphenation to avoid bad breaks. Therefore, instead of »non-trivial« I write »non|-|trivial«. However, I noticed that when I make dash compound aware it is no longer kerned into the margin. MWE is below. How can I fix this?

Cheers, Henri

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\showframe \setuppapersize[A6][A6] \definefontfeature [default][default] [protrusion=quality]

\setupalign[hanging] \starttext % this is margin kerned Hyphenation is of compound words is non-trivial

% this should be margin kerned but isn't Hyphenation is of compound words is non|-|trivial \stoptext