> Henning Hraban Ramm <mailto:texml@fiee.net>
> 8. Dezember 2015 um 16:22
>
> Thank you, this is really nice. Didn’t know \directsetup (i.e. I can’t 
> handle these setups at all).
>
> I also tried to get rid of the bigger space after stops:
>
> \installlanguage[packed][en]
> \setuplanguage[packed][spacing=packed]
You don’t have add a new language because
> \startsetups[tightspace]
> \spaceskip 0.7\interwordspace plus .5\interwordstretch minus 
> \interwordshrink
> \stopsetups
>
> \definedescription[BibItem][
> before={\directsetup{tightspace}\bgroup\language[packed]},
> after={\egroup},
> ]
you can use here (the grouping isn’t necessary)

    before={\directsetup{tightspace}\setupspacing[packed]},

Wolfgang