Hi, I'm looking for a non-bureaucratic way to add some space to parentheses. typo-spa.mkiv looked most promising, so I did ---8<-------------------------------------------------------------------------- \definecharacterspacing[parens] \setupcharacterspacing[parens] ["0040] [right=.2,alternative=1] \setupcharacterspacing[parens] ["0041] [left=.2,alternative=1] \starttext aaa(aaa)aaa\par \setcharacterspacing[parens] aaa(aaa)aaa \stoptext ---8<-------------------------------------------------------------------------- but can't notice any difference. Is there a way to set spacing per character that does not involve changing the font or making characters active? I wish you all a nice weekend, Philipp -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments