but I'm already stumbling about the next thing. while playing around with some nice fonts I also tried out `optima' (like palatino by h. zapf). so that is what I see:
mtxrun --script font --list --all --name --pattern=*optima*
optima optimaextrablack /System/Library/Fonts/Optima.ttc index: 0 optimablack optimaextrablack /System/Library/Fonts/Optima.ttc index: 0 optimabold optimabold /System/Library/Fonts/Optima.ttc index: 3 optimabolditalic optimabolditalic /System/Library/Fonts/Optima.ttc index: 1 optimaextrablack optimaextrablack /System/Library/Fonts/Optima.ttc index: 0 optimaitalic optimaitalic /System/Library/Fonts/Optima.ttc index: 2 optimanormal optimaitalic /System/Library/Fonts/Optima.ttc index: 2 optimaregular optimaregular /System/Library/Fonts/Optima.ttc index: 4
then, when using, e.g.,
\definefontfamily [mainface] [serif] [Optima] \definefontfamily [mainface] [sans] [Optima] \definefontfamily [mainface] [mono] [dejavusansmono] [scale=0.865] %dejavumono/optima x-height ratio \definefontfamily [mainface] [math] [TeX Gyre Pagella Math] \setupbodyfont[mainface,11pt]
neither \it nor \bf (italic and bold) variants are working in the body text (but are just rendered in the regular \rm font).
I guess your context version is too old because the current version in the standalone installation of context shows the italic and bold styles. Wolfgang