Hi Hans, you're experimental translate module for MkIV is very nice and makes it for german users very easy to avoid ligatures in certain words. What I don't like is to that I have to escape the bar in the replacement text, can't you take care of this in the \translateinput macro itself and save the text without expansion. \usemodule[translate] \translateinput[Auflage][Auf\string|*\string|lage] \starttext Auflage \enableinputtranslation Auflage \stoptext Thanks and regards, Wolfgang