To all XeTeX enthusiasts, I have just figured out (after Jonathan's post on the XeTeX mailing list) that the new XeTeX supports some interesting features. You can check it out (it might be that it only works with ConTeXt 2007.09.28 and XeTeX 0.997): \definefontfeature [slantedandextended] % cloned from the rest of XeTeX, not really needed [method=node,script=latn,language=dflt,liga=yes,onum=yes,kern=yes, slant=0.25,extend=1.5] \definefontsynonym [myfont] [file:texgyrepagella-regular][features=slantedandextended] \starttext \definedfont[myfont] This is slanted and extended \stoptext This specific font doesn't need that feature, but there might be others :) Mojca