Greetings I have been trying to set up ConTeXt in Windows XP using MikTeX. I have been running LaTeX2e through TeXnic center fine. On the basis of the TeXexec manual, I ran "texexec --make en" I attempted to build a small file test.tex by running "texexec --pdf test" from the directory in which the file is located. It said that the default format file could not be found. I tried increasing the 'pattern memory ops' in the miktex.ini config file as you suggested to another TeXer; nothing happened. The following message occurs in the log: ... (C:\MiKTeX\tex\context\base\symb-mis.tex) symbols : loading symbolset mvs (C:\MiKTeX\tex\context\base\symb-mvs.tex) symbols : loading symbolset glm (C:\MiKTeX\tex\context\base\symb-glm.tex ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [hash size=35000]. \definefontsynonym ...?ff \fontclass #1\endcsname \@@fontfile \doifnextchare... l.39 ...nonym [GuilSerifBold] [cork-lmbx10] [encoding=ec] If you really absolutely need more capacity, you can ask a wizard to enlarge me. Here is how much of TeX's memory you used: 35451 strings out of 98461 549342 string characters out of 1219912 469342 words of memory out of 1048577 35000 multiletter control sequences out of 35000 7 words of font info for 0 fonts, out of 500000 for 1000 0 hyphenation exceptions out of 607 23i,2n,28p,276b,536s stack positions out of 1500i,500n,5000p,200000b,32768s 0 PDF objects out of 300000 0 named destinations out of 300000 1 words of extra memory for PDF output out of 65536 No pages of output. ... Thanks, Leon