From the October 8, 2010 context mkiv MetaFun manual (section 8.6),
Hi, the following example does not produce any output beyond the caption: \startuseMPgraphic{quotation} picture one ; one := image( graphictext \MPstring{inputtext} scaled 1.5 withdrawcolor .625blue withfillcolor .625white withpen pencircle scaled 1pt; ); picture two ; two := image( graphictext \MPstring{author} scaled 2 withdrawcolor .625red withfillcolor .625white withpen pencircle scaled 2pt ; ) ; currentpicture := one ; addto currentpicture also two shifted lrcorner one shifted - 1.125 lrcorner two shifted (0, - 1.250 * ypart urcorner two) ; setbounds currentpicture to boundingbox currentpicture enlarged 3pt ; \stopuseMPgraphic \starttext \setMPtext{inputtext} {\vbox{\hsize 8.5cm \input zapf }} \setMPtext{author}{\hbox{\sl Hermann Zapf}} \placefigure{A text does not need to be an outline in order to be typeset in an outline font.} {\useMPgraphic{quotation}} \stoptext Expected Results Outlined text, as presented in section 8.6. Actual Results Mostly blank page. (Note, I changed "text" to "inputtext" to make sure I wasn't using a keyword. The manual uses "text".) Environment $ context --version mtx-context | ConTeXt Process Management 0.60 mtx-context | mtx-context | main context file: /home/username/bin/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/context.mkiv mtx-context | current version: 2013.10.10 17:47 64-bit Linux Kindest regards.