An almost identical solution is given on the wiki (http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Cropping_text) Bostjan >> \starttext >> >> \def\breakeverywhere#1{\if#1\normalspace\space\else#1\allowbreak\fi} >> >> \framed >> [width=4cm,align=normal] >> {\handletokens i want a framed where the text flushes to the next line >> without hyphenation. There is a way to get this >> result?\with\breakeverywhere} >> >> \stoptext >>