Am 20.06.2025 um 14:18 schrieb John Was:
> Hello
>
> The file uhyphens.tex is just a list of word hyphenations where I don't
> agree with the breaks that TeX gives (I insist on pre-1980s rules for
> English!).  For example:
>
> \hyphenation{%
> .....
> abo-lished
> .....
> con-tri-butes
> .....
> }

Context has a wrapper for the \hyphentation command which lists the
exceptions to the language given in the first agument (e.g. english in
the following example).

\starttext

\hyphenatedword{abolished}
\hyphenatedword{contributes}

\startexceptions[en]
abo-lished
con-tri-butes
\stopexceptions

\hyphenatedword{abolished}
\hyphenatedword{contributes}

\stoptext


> At the moment I am using XeTeX-type font calls while I work out other
> aspects of ConTexT.  If that is all that is holding things up I can go
> over to ConTexT's native system  if necessary, though in a typical file
> header I would have dozens of fonts to load.  Here is what I have at
> present:
>
> \definefont[ubsreight][file:BaskervilleMTPro-Regular*oldstyle at 8pt]
> \definefont[ubsieight][file:BaskervilleMTPro-Italic*oldstyle at 8pt]
> \definefont[ubsbeight][file:BaskervilleMTPro-Italic*oldstyle at 8pt]
> \definefont[ubspreight][file:BaskervilleMTPro-Regular*altfont at 8pt]
> \definefont[ubsrten][file:BaskervilleMTPro-Regular*oldstyle at 10pt]
> \definefont[ubsiten][file:BaskervilleMTPro-Italic*oldstyle at 10pt]
> \definefont[ubsbten][file:BaskervilleMTPro-Italic*oldstyle at 10pt]
> \definefont[ubsprten][file:BaskervilleMTPro-Regular*altfont at 10pt]
> \definefont[runheadrom][file:BaskervilleMTPro-Regular*altfont at 10.5pt]
> \definefont[runheadit][file:BaskervilleMTPro-Italic*altfont at 10.5pt]

Replacing your lowlevel font loading with the proper method is something
you have to do at some point.

For the beginning let us find the problem with the database refresh.

What is the output when you ask the database for all files of the
baskerville fonts, to do this use the following input on the command line:

mtxrun --script fonts --list --all --pattern=baskervillemtpro*

Wolfgang

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