Re: suppressing hyphenation

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 02:33 AM 1/15/2003 +0000, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>Sorry if this has been covered before, but does anyone know a ConTeXt-y
>(i.e., elegant) way of suppressing hyphenation for a block of text?
>
>I'm dealing with long chapter headings, and I would rather set them
>ragged and without hyphenation.
>
>I've made tentative experiments with the techniques described here, but
>to no avail. I tried making a new language [zz] that grabs the
>zerohyph.tex hyphenation file. TeX complains about seeing a \pattern
>outside of initex, but it did have the effect of eliminating all
>hyphenation in my document, which was a bit more than I bargained for.
>
>Has anyone done this successfully? No? Should I continue trying the language?

did you try:

   \nohyphens

or

   \setupalign[nothyphenated]


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