On Sat, 24 May 2008 20:34:37 -0500
"Charles P. Schaum"
I found an interim fix for the \ae macro in the schemata: put the word with the macro in an hbox, and the problem goes away. I wonder what the mechanics behind that are. I tend to have weird documents with dead languages. Who knows, maybe I want to cite Aelfric using Old English letters or Sir Gawain or whatever Middle High German with a yogh or similar glyph. Come to think of it, Gothic would be cool, too. So, figuring out the mechanics would be helpful.
You could use the texnansi encoding for the fonts, this did also work for \ae in math mode, for the latin modern fonts put \usetypescript[modern][texnansi] \setupbodyfont[modern] at the begin of your file. It seems with ec encoding default is used in math mode and \ae is mapped here to \char26 where the fonts have the dotless j.
Thanks, Charles
Greetings Wolfgang