Delimited texts (where \quote belongs to) set the upright font as default value for the style, see also http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/286743/context-quote-command-resets-font-shape-is-this-a-bug16. Januar 2016 um 15:26When used in inside \emph, \quote puts the words cited into roman face. Thus,\starttext\emph{The \quote{Problemata} in Medieval Times}\emph{The \quote{\emph{Problemata}} in Medieval Times}\stoptextThis seems odd. Should \quote not leave the style of the text as it is? That is, should the output of line 1 not look like that of line 2?