OK, another step (in the right direction?). lgr-tex is an encoding for monotoniko Greek (i.e. has only the acute accent, the only one used in moderne dimotiki Greek), so not suitable. However, it refers to a file of the CB-Greek family "cblig.mf," which contains just the information I was looking for - defines all the ligatures, like so: "ligtable ">": % smooth breathing "a" =: oct"202", "e" =: oct"342", "h" =: oct"232", "r" =: oct"374" I can actually understand what this file does: if TeX finds the combination >a, it will produce a ligature mapped to slot o202. Does this help me in any way? Is there a way I could use a similar table in ConTeXt? -- Thomas A. Schmitz Philologisches Seminar Universitaet Bonn Am Hof 1 e 53113 Bonn Tel.: 0228/73-7747 Fax: 0228/73-7748