On Apr 09, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

You can use the fallback mechanism to use a different font for characters which aren’t available in the main font.

\definefallbackfamily [mainface] [rm] [Devanagari MT] [range=devanagari,scale=1.2] \definefontfamily [mainface] [rm] [TeX Gyre Pagella]

\definefontfamily [mainface] [mm] [TeX Gyre Pagella Math]

\setupbodyfont[mainface]

\starttext Danke – धन्यवाद \stoptext

doesn't work for me -- the indien glyphs don't show up:-( I'll attch my test, log and my current font... Harald -- "I hope to die ___ _____ before I *have* to use Microsoft Word.", 0--,| /OOOOOOO\ Donald E. Knuth, 02-Oct-2001 in Tuebingen. <_/ / /OOOOOOOOOOO\ \ \/OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO\ \ OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO|// \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ Harald Koenig // / \\ \ koenig@tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de ^^^^^ ^^^^^

On Apr 10, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

You forgot the “range” setting for the fallback font which tells context which glyphs should be taken from the font.

opps sorry! I only removed the "range" after my first attempt didn't succeed... now it's working fine, but only after copying the font to "tex/texmf-local/fonts/truetype/" and running "context --generate". thanks!!! for my first naiive approach with \definefont it was ok/sufficient to keep the TTF file in the local project's directory. why is not true for your \definefallbackfamily solution ? thanks again!! Harald -- "I hope to die ___ _____ before I *have* to use Microsoft Word.", 0--,| /OOOOOOO\ Donald E. Knuth, 02-Oct-2001 in Tuebingen. <_/ / /OOOOOOOOOOO\ \ \/OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO\ \ OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO|// \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ Harald Koenig // / \\ \ koenig@tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de ^^^^^ ^^^^^