Hello, First of all, Mojca thanks very much for the update about TikZ. (I could not find an option to reply in Context Garden mailing list). My new question is the following. I have the following code to generate the labels for the tick marks: for i = 0 step 5 until 45: draw (i,0)*u -- (i,-0.2)*u; label.bot(decimal(i) ,(i,-0.2)*u); endfor; As you can see I use "decimal(i)" to get the labels (0,5,10,... and so on). But the font of these numbers is not the same as when I use the "btex label_text etex" command, which I have set to palatino. How can I typeset the value of Metapost variables (such as "i" in this case), using tex commands. For example, if I had to typeset (n_{1},n{2},...,n_{100}), how could I do that. On page 63 of John Hobby's metapost manual, he talks about how this could be achieved using TEX.mp. I tried typing \input TEX before \starttext, however, I get the error "I can't find file `TEX;' If I put it within the \startuseMPgraphic and \stopuseMPgraphic, it still does not work. Do I have to download this from somewhere or does Context have another solution? Thanks very much.