Has anybody followed this de.comp.text.tex thread? From: Christian Gudrian [1] Randausgleich von Binde- und Trennstrich Date: Sun Aug 29 17:23:53 CEST 2004 It deals with a disappearing protrusion at a manually set hyphen dash, e. g. in the test file below the one "Mammut-marsch". \nopagenumbers \pdfprotrudechars=2 \hsize=345pt \rpcode\font`\-=250 \def\sloppy{% \tolerance 9999% \emergencystretch 3em% \hfuzz .5pt \vfuzz\hfuzz} \sloppy Mammutmarsch Mammutmarsch Mammutmarsch Mammutmarsch Mammutmarsch Mammutmarsch Mammutmarsch Mammutmarsch Mammutmarsch Mammutmarsch Mammutmarsch Mammutmarsch Mammutmarsch Mammutmarsch Mammutmarsch Mammutmarsch Mammutmarsch Mammutmarsch Mammutmarsch Mammutmarsch Mammutmarsch Mammutmarsch Mammutmarsch Mammutmarsch Mammutmarsch Mammutmarsch Mammutmarsch Mammutmarsch Mammutmarsch Mammutmarsch Mammutmarsch Mammutmarsch Mammut-marsch Mammutmarsch Mammutmarsch Mammutmarsch Mammutmarsch Mammutmarsch \end Or is this setup wrong? Only thing i found out is that the particular line with the manual hyphen ends with a disc_node (type 7), but the other lines seem to end with a vlist_node (type 1), whatever that means. And the automatic hyphens have a right_pw of 163840, whereas the manual one has zero there. No clue how to trace this further. Regards, Hartmut