Hi, I uploaded a new version. However, because of some new feature there can be (unwanted) side effects wrt hyphenation (should not be but who knows). As a follow up on Denis mails about ligature prevention, we now have a mechanism called language 'goodies' analogue to 'font goodies'. For practical reasons this permits (high performance) plugs into the mechanism that also deals with hyphenation. Basically we can have some feedback loop but more about that later (Denis, Wolfgang and I need to play with all this and settle on the interface). Although all can be done in pure lua (and i might add that at some point) this particular mechanism plugs into the hyphenator so that we get no real performance hit (I can proabbly improve it if really needed but let's first see if users complain.) Here is an exmaple (to be default or not?) \setuplanguage [de] [goodies={lang-de.llg}] that has to come before a lkanguage gets activated (for now). In addition to exceptions one can do \startlanguageoptions[de] Zapf|innovation \stoplanguageoptions to prevent a ligature between f and i and \startlanguageoptions[de] Zapf=innovation \stoplanguageoptions to make it into a compound word (use both to prevent ligatures too). There's more to come once we get the full picture. I leave it to Denis to organize the collection of words and definitions that go into a goodie file. Hans ps. Sometimes I wonder if for every new feature added we should drop an old maybe useless one, like some of the obsolete pdf stuff or features that seem to be persistently broken or weird or unpredictable in viewers. After all evolution also takes care of removal. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------