Hi, I got a few responses for this. Thank you to all of you. I ended up using the code below. Works a treat. And yes, apologies. The square brackets were a typo; of course they should have been curly. Thank you again. Malte. On 24/03/2012, at 0:01, ntg-context-request@ntg.nl wrote:

One way is to use your own macro:

\def\MyIndex#1{\index{#1}{\sc #1}} \starttext There are some \MyIndex{ducks} in the zoo. \stoptext

By the way, your \index[ducks] didn't work for me the way I thought you wanted; I changed the [] to {} and added the word to the text body. As far as I can tell, \index only adds entries to the index register and not to the text.