Hi, One of the changes in mkiv font handling is that from now on we have mode=auto as default (beware, this is one of those mkiv only options and not supported in the generic variant). I don't know how well it works in practice but it does work out ok for cases like: \starttext \startTEXpage \definedfont[Serif*default at 20pt]fijn\par \definefontfeature[nlddefault][default][script=latn,language=nld] \definedfont[Serif*nlddefault at 20pt]fijn\par \stopTEXpage \stoptext Depending on the font, node mode takes more memory (and a bit more runtime) but you can always enforce base or node mode when you are unhappy with the automatically determined mode. Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------