Am 12.07.2011 um 18:19 schrieb John Culleton:

Are the subdivisions \startfrontmatter etc. now obsolete?

The new messages lead sometimes in the wrong direction, show us more information from the command line where you can see which command is really undefined.

3 \switchtotypeface [helvetica] [12pt,ss] 4 \starttext 5 \startfrontmatter 6 \startstandardmakeup 7 \midaligned{How to make a document.} 8 \midaligned{by} 9 \midaligned{The Author} 10 \stopstandardmakeup 11 \switchtotypeface [palatino] [12pt,rm]

When you want a different font for the titlepage then switch to helvetica *in* the standardmakeup environment and don’t switch font before and after the environment. \setupbodyfont[palatino] \startsetups[titlepage] \switchtobodyfont[helvetica] \stopsetups \starttext \startstandardmakeup[align=middle,setups=titlepage] How to make a document. by The Author \stopstandardmakeup ... \stoptext Wolfgang