I'm CC-ing this checklist about making new (Russian) hyphenation patterns work to the mailing list (also because a while ago I didn't manage to make them work either). Arkady Shraer wrote:

Yes, I replaced files from previous mail. While texexec --make --all I saw, that lang-ru.* processed by ConTeXt. But in the log file (I attached the full log) I cannot see if the "ru" language is loaded.

In the output file text just ragged right as before -- no hypenation.

OK, so once more a checklist for you. From the fact that you're a gmail user too I can imagine that you also got the files "garbled" just as I did (I mean: written inline instead of getting attachments unless you downloaded your mail with some program): 0. not necessary [texmfstart] ctxtools --update (although I had problems downloading the latest beta) 1. check if all the files are OK: - tex/context/patterns/lang-ru.hyp - tex/context/patterns/lang-ru.pat - new version of tex/context/base/lang-ctx.tex, has to include: \installlanguage [\s!ru] [\s!mapping=t2a,\s!encoding=t2a] (If you didn't get the files right, get them from a temporary location http://pub.mojca.org/tex/russian/lang-ru.zip) 2. I don't know when this is needed and when not, but it might be that you have to copy cont-usr.ori to cont-usr.tex and uncomment the following line: \installlanguage [\s!ru] [\c!state=\v!start] % russian (before I did that I couldn't make the Slovenian hyphenation work) 3. run mktexlsr (or I-forgot-the-synonym/other-command-if-this-doesn't-work) 4. [texmfstart] texexec --make --all

after "texmfstart texexec --make --all" I have ConTeXt ver: 2006.07.24 10:49 fmt: 2006.7.27 int: english mes: english Is it right?

It's surely better than in one of the posts that you sent before this one ;) "fmt:" has to bear the date when you ran "texmfstart texexec --make --all". If that is older, the format file wasn't written to the right place. You seem to use Ubuntu. I don't know how things are configured there, but I had numerous problems under MikTeX. The reason was that "texexec --make --all" didn't have any influence there since a whole lot of environmental variables were missing (the standalone distribution doesn't have those problems). In general I would suggest you to put the content of scripts/context/stubs/unix to some "visible place", so that "texexec" will execute "texmfstart texexec", you can surely google a bit for it, there was also a discussion about installation on Ubuntu recently on the mailing list. 5. Here's what I did to get antykwa torunska (if you don't have it you can download it from here: http://www.janusz.nowacki.strefa.pl/torunska-e.html): \enableregime[utf] \mainlanguage[ru] \definetypeface [russian] [rm] [serif] [antykwa-torunska] [default] [encoding=t2a] \setupbodyfont[russian] (for computer modern it should be similar, but you need more than one line to set it properly; however if you managed to make it work already, your old file should already be OK) I hope that you'll find some hint in this, Mojca