I am inclined to agree, Aditya. At least it *is* odd in English typography.
Still thanks for the fix.

Alan

On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 12:55 PM, Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu> wrote:

> On Sat, 16 Jan 2016, Alan Bowen wrote:
>
> When used in inside \emph, \quote puts the words cited into roman face.
>> Thus,
>>
>> \starttext
>>
>> \emph{The \quote{Problemata} in Medieval Times}
>>
>> \emph{The \quote{\emph{Problemata}} in Medieval Times}
>>
>> \stoptext
>>
>> This seems odd. Should \quote not leave the style of the text as it is?
>> That is, should the output of line 1 not look like that of line 2?
>>
>
> The same question was asked recently on TeX.SE
> http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/286743/context-quote-command-resets-font-shape-is-this-a-bug
>
> I think that this is just a bad default. You can use:
>
> \setupdelimitedtext[quote][style=]
>
> Aditya
>
>
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