Thank you, Wolfgang! That is very helpful and much appreciated. Re \switchtobodyfont, I see that I misinterpreted the entry on the wiki. All best, Alan On Apr 10, 2025 at 14:06:16, Wolfgang Schuster < wolfgang.schuster.lists@gmail.com> wrote:

Am 10.04.2025 um 18:28 schrieb Alan Bowen:

Oops. I forgot the macro definition:

\def\modCyr#1{{\switchtobodyfont[dejavu]{#1}}}

To get your text in dejavu add

\usebodyfont [dejavu] \setupbodyfont[modern]

at the begin of the document to preload the typescript, otherwise you load the font in a local group where the settings are forgotten at the end of the group.

Be also be aware of \switchtobodyfont being an argumentless switch, this means the form

\switchtobodyfont[<font>]{...}

is wrong and the correct form is

{\switchtobodyfont[<font>]...}

Wolfgang

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Sorry, Wolfgang. Here is the complete file: \def\modCyr#1{{\switchtobodyfont[dejavu]{#1}}} \starttext A. \switchtobodyfont[10pt]{ First published by Stojan Novaković in 1877 in his anthology \modCyr{\emph{Примери књижевности и jезика старога и српско-словенскога}} (Belgrade/\modCyr{Београд: Издање и штампа државне штампариjе}, pp.\ 504–505). } \blank[big,fixed] B. \switchtobodyfont[9pt]{ First published by Stojan Novaković in 1877 in his anthology \modCyr{\emph{Примери књижевности и jезика старога и српско-словенскога}} (Belgrade/\modCyr{Београд: Издање и штампа државне штампариjе}, pp.\ 504–505). } \stoptext Alan On Apr 10, 2025 at 13:44:01, Wolfgang Schuster < wolfgang.schuster.lists@gmail.com> wrote:

Am 10.04.2025 um 18:09 schrieb Alan Bowen:

I have the following:

\starttext

A.

\switchtobodyfont[10pt]{

First published by Stojan Novaković in 1877 in his anthology

\modCyr{\emph{Примери књижевности и jезика старога и српско-

словенскога}} (Belgrade/\modCyr{Београд: Издање и штампа државне

штампариjе}, pp.\ 504–505).

}

\blank[big,fixed]

B.

\switchtobodyfont[9pt]{

First published by Stojan Novaković in 1877 in his anthology

\modCyr{\emph{Примери књижевности и jезика старога и српско-

словенскога}} (Belgrade/\modCyrfn{Београд: Издање и штампа државне

штампариjе}, pp.\ 504–505).

}

\stoptext

This works as expected at 10pt but fails at 9pt (no Russian is printed).

The problem does not seem to be with dejavu.

I have plainly missed something. But what?

Show us a complete working example because yours doesn't compile, the reason for this is the \modCyr command.

Wolfgang

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