Adam kindly suggested:
As you're on a mac, you're probably cut/pasting from your mail client into your editor of choice (TeXShop? iTeXMac?).
Yes I did, into TeXShop. Most likely that client
is saving your source file in Mac encoding. Therefore, you should be using: \useregime[mac] Instead of win or il1. Hope that solves the A-macron problem, at least.
I was experimenting with the example posted by Peter Münster, with a few more accented évolutions to put them well into another line: \fr \useencoding[ec] \enableregime[il1] \starttext évolution évolution évolution évolution évolution évolution évolution évolution évolution évolution évolution évolution évolution évolution evolution evolution evolution evolution evolution evolution evolution evolution evolution \stoptext When I replaced the \enableregime[il1] with \useregime[Mac] and saved the document in TeXShop with MacOSRoman encoding the problem is ... um ... solved by the output completely ignoring the first letter and turning the first word into "volution"! However, when I change the command sequence to \enableregime[Mac] instead of \useregime the e-aigue *does* work, so thank you very much! It still doesn't hyphenate, but it's a step in the right direction. Here's the Overfull \hbox message from the console, on the off-chance it's relevant for the hyphenation problem: Overfull \hbox (17.09685pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 5--7 []/cmr12/^^Sevolution ^^Sevolution ^^Sevolution ^^Sevolution ^^Sevolution ^^Sev olution ^^Sevolution ^^Sevolution ^^Sevolution [1.1{/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map}] systems : end file frenchtest at line 10 (end quote) Thank you very much for the solution to the diacritical problem! Now I'm going to have to look in the manual for the difference between \useregime and \enableregime... John -- *** John McChesney-Young ** panis@pacbell.net ** Berkeley, California, U.S.A. ***