Hi, As I needed ascii mode for some style, I played a bit more with it. In the process I realized that it was interfering with environment and module loading so I took care of that. Then there is the problem of commenting. As it is unlikely that a double % ends up in a document, I made a mechanism to deal with that: \asciimode \usemodule[x][mathml] \starttext 10% interest %% is way too much ABC%% DEF \mathematics{x^2} \startMPcode fill fullcircle scaled 10cm withcolor red ; %% test \stopMPcode \starttyping test test %% test \stoptyping \stoptext So, as with -- in lua or // in c we have %% in ascii tex. I hope that this makes sense. (The beta on the ftp server has it.) It might make sense to use a different way to trigger asciimode, with some setup command. Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------