On 2014-04-29 Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

Am 29.04.2014 um 16:21 schrieb Jan Tosovsky :

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is there any way to switch the hlig or dlig features on? The corresponding glyphs are present in the font, but somehow ignored.

The name of the typeface you defined here

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\definefontfamily[palation][rm][Palatino Linotype]

isn't the same which you use here

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\setupbodyfont[palatino]

What a stupid mistake! Now it works as expected. Thanks a lot! Jan