I have been forced to redo my font allocations because of Gerbens i-installer for MacOSX no longer seems to allow texfont to work. fontroot is not set correctly and then when I put in the correct setting the font subpaths are not found even though they are clearly there. Patrick has lead me to the delights of Latex Fonts via his script adobekb.tex which works well for most of my existing documents. However, I have a small problem with graphs in metapost the following startup is used but the fonts for the scales do not come out. input metafun ; verbatimtex \usetypescriptfile[adobekb] \setupencoding [default=8r] \usetypescript[adobekb][\defaultencoding] \usetypescript[times][\defaultencoding] \setupbodyfont[times] \starttext etex input graph init_numbers (textext("$-$"), textext("$1$"), textext("${\times}10$"), textext("${}^-$"), textext("${}^2$")); Fe_base := textext("$10$") ; prologues:=2; Any help is most welcome -- Nigel