At 09:30 PM 12/2/2002 +0100, you wrote:

The problem is that that file doesn't contain all > 50000 characters but only a few (basically latin1 accented characters)

right, and for a start we only need to build the second vector, which i didn't -)

By the way, I'm looking for a nice looking serif font, which I can use as

math font and which contains at least all MES-1, better also the MES-2 characters (http://www.evertype.com/standards/iso10646/pdf/cwa13873.pdf) and the default ligatures used by TeX. So far I mainly found either WGL4 compatible fonts (http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/opentype/appendices/wgl4.html) or fonts which can be used for math in TeX, but not both. (At least not within a amount of money which I can spend ;-)

did you try palatino?

\usetypescript[palatino][texnansi] \setupbodyfont[palatino,10pt]

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