Dear Hans, (I'll answer the rest later)
Did you try to run that with MKII? MKIV works fine (I know that the title was a bit misleading). I get the characters from font that are equal to the second byte of UTF-8 representation of input character.
you probably need to enable utf8 in the mp environment then
But it has always worked perfectly until recently. And it's not really mp environment. I suspect that the text gets typeset with TeX, not with metapost, so metapost enviroment should not really count. I have a version of ConTeXt that dates back to 2009.11.24 10:13 and in that one it still works properly. In version 2010.02.26 10:57 it is broken.
Thanks. I'm sorry that I didn't simplify that one (I just took a random equation out of a document since it looked nicer).
random thesis ... interesting
You know ... you have written a devoted \startsimplethesis for me, don't you remember :) Random images and equations were included there as well, I just extended macros a bit to adapt the result to the expertise of each jury member last september :)
What can I do?
make a complete test as small as possible
It doesn't get much simpler than the following: \usemodule[bib] % this line spoils the show \setuppublications[alternative=num] \setuppublicationlayout[webpage]{\inserturl{}{}{}} \startpublication[k=pragma,t=webpage] \biburl{http://www.pragma-ade.com} \stoppublication \starttext \cite[pragma]\par\placepublications \stoptext Defining new publication types doesn't seem to be compatible with alternative=num in MKIV. Mojca