I used to place references to figures and tables in the following way:
\placefigure[][fig:myfig]{Title}{\useMPgraphic{myfig}{parameters}}
\in{figure}[fig:myfig]
This however printed a dot instead of the expected "figure #".
Changing to
\at{figure}[fig:myfig]
again printed the correct reference.
Looking further into this I found:
\meaning\in --> \protected macro:->\dohandlemathtoken {in}
\meaning\at --> macro:->\dohandlecommand {at}
Still, the ConText manual tells me that
\in{.1}{.2.}[ref] (with {.2.} optional)
should work.
In file core-ref.tex at line 2118 (2007-04-17 version) I find:
%\def\in%
% {\ifmmode
% \expandafter\donormalin
% \else
% \expandafter\doinatreference\expandafter\currenttextreference
% \fi}
But I am definitely not in math mode when calling \in.
I did some further experimentation but nothing helped.
Has something changed here or is there something I do obviously wrong?