On 2013–07–24 Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

> How about a example for us!

\starttext

%% \brokenpenalty10000\relax
\setpenalties\brokenpenalties{1}{10000}

\dorecurse{4}{\input knuth}

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tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua.
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\stoptext

Apparently \brokenpenalty is not supposed to be used with
\setpenalties, see spac-ver.mkiv :

    \setpenalties\widowpenalties\plustwo\maxdimen
    \setpenalties\clubpenalties \plustwo\maxdimen
                 \brokenpenalty         \maxdimen

Actually I don't yet know what's the deal with the \setpenalties
command and why it's used for some penalties and not for others.

Marco