On 4/8/06, Pavel Stupin wrote:

bodyfont : 12pt rm is loaded ! Font \*12ptrmtf*=ec-lmr12 not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found. <to be read again>

To Hans: perhaps cont-lmt.zip should be put back to the page with downloads? Perhaps even all font files present in the standalone distribution? I think that many users were already asking for that.

Could you please advise me what I'm supposed to do to have the metric files found and whether I must update my obsolete pdfTeX and eTeX to handle the problem.

Updating pdfTeX won't solve that concrete problem, but you might encounter other problems. So - yes, you are warmly suggested to update the whole distribution. Read this carefully: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/TeTeX_3.0_installation esp. the section with fonts. You have to install Latin Modern fonts: http://www.ctan.org/info?id=lm

Also, I'm interested if Russian language is supported by ConTeXt "out of the box" or not.

It is, but you have to have some proper fonts installed. Antykwa-torunska, iwona and kurier have cyrillic glyphs and ship with minimal context distribution on Pragma's website. There are surely many other fonts like cm-super, different postscript fonts, ... It might be that you will have to add some font definitions first, but I think that people are ready to help you with that. I'm attaching an example for writing in Russian, but you'll have to install proper fonts before you'll be able to compile the sample file (http://www.janusz.nowacki.strefa.pl/torunska.html in that case). I'm using that font just because I don't have any other cyrillich font installed: you'll probably want to use some other font anyway. (Search for file names *t2a*.tfm in your TeX tree.) Mojca