Consider two .tex files located at http://www.inf.uniri.hr/~vmiletic/art-pre/ with same content:

context --mode=article art-pre.tex works right,
context --mode=article art+pre.tex fails with

! Undefined control sequence.

system          > tex > error on line 7 in file art+pre.tex: Undefined control sequence ...

Should + not be used? It seems to work ok without modes, but I haven't tested deeply.

Regards,

Vedran Miletić