Hello,
Okay. Problem solved. The thing is that I did not ask the texlive distribution to install the extra fonts package. The palatino fonts were part of the extra fonts.
Right, I did aks you if you have psnfss installed? Hmm, perhaps I forgot, because I think that everybody has it installed...
The former tries to use palatino in all the variations in the following example. The palatino fonts seems to be missing the serif variant,
I guess you mean sans serif? Yes, there is no such thing as Palatino sans serif.
Even the equation uses some sort of postscript font that I am not familiar with.
px I'd guess.
the \rm, \em, and \sl lines. Everywhere else the CMR font is used.
Well, not really cmr, but cmss, cmtt and math.
What causes this behavior?
see type-pre.tex type-exa.tex and type-enc.tex for definitions on those typescripts. They are just different typescripts. Patrick -- ConTeXt wiki: http://contextgarden.net texshow-web: http://texshow.contextgarden.net List archive: http://archive.contextgarden.net