2010/12/21 Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>

> For mkii you need the texnansi encoding for the fonts, mkiv has no problems
> with \type
> but haven’t told which engine you use neither did you provide a full
> example.
>
> Run this and you will get the correct output for \type:
>
> \usetypescript[modern][texnansi]
> \setupbodyfont[modern]
> \starttext
> - \type{-} -- \type{--} --- \type{---}
> \stoptext
>
> Wolfgang
>

i use mkiv, specifically the version you get via ./first-setup.sh
--extras="t-simplefonts,t-tikz"

i now found out that the simplefonts module cuses this:

\usemodule[simplefonts]
\starttext
\type{--}
\stoptext