Is there any way to use MnSymbol in context?
It is, but somebody needs to write support for it. Both for MKII and MKIV.
The problem is, that luatex refuses to load any of the MnSymbol*.otf font files available from CTAN with an error message. I don't know what is broken with the fonts. Should you just be interested in the symbols you can fix the otf font with fontforge by reencoding and saving it to a unicode font again. Glyphs with undefined unicode value will be assigned to unicode slots starting from 0xF0000. Then you can do this: \definefontsynonym [MnSymbol12U] [name:MnSymbol12Uni] \starttext \definedfont [MnSymbol12U at 16pt] ABC XYZ \char"25B7 \char"2660 \char"2720 \char"10391 \char"10393 \char"10335 \stoptext To print a table with glyphs and unicode values do: \usemodule[fnt-10] \starttext \ShowCompleteFont{name:MnSymbol12Uni}{11pt}{1} % MnSymbol12Uni.otf \stoptext I used the following fontforge script to re-generate the font: #begin fontforge script #usage: fontforge -script fontBMP2Full.ff MnSymbol12.otf Open($1); F1 = $fontname+"Uni" # fontname F2 = "" # familyname F3 = $fullname+"Uni" # fullname F4 = "" # weight F5 = "" # copyright F6 = "" # fontversion #SetFontNames(fontname[,family[,fullname[,weight[,copyright-notice[,fontversion]]]]]) #Sets various postscript names associated with a font. If a name is omitted (or is the #empty string) it will not be changed. SetFontNames(F1,F2,F3,F4,F5,F6) Reencode("unicode"); Generate($fontname+".otf"); Quit(0); #end fontforge script Florian