> Hans Hagen > 10. Juni 2016 um 19:06 > > > as usual the question is then ... what keywords etc (maybe wolfgang > has a suggestion) When you don’t want a new variable you can use "end". The alignment doesn’t work well with short paragraphs. %% begin example \starttext \showframe \leftskip \zeropoint plus \plustwo\bodyfontsize \rightskip \zeropoint plus 1fill \parfillskip \zeropoint plus -1fill \spaceskip \interwordspace \xspaceskip .5\emwidth What does happen with a short paragraph? Make it even shorter! \stoptext %% end example Wolfgang