In some overheads I'm creating, I'd like emphasized text {\em like this} to appear as red. I hoped that something like this would work:

\setupbodyfontenvironment[default][em={slanted, textcolor=red}]

but it doesn't. What is the canonical way of obtaining red, emphasized, text?

Thanks,
Alasdair

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