Hi Jack,

I tested your example both with Pagella and Lucida OT: indeed typesetting with the latest LMTX, with Pagella the math italic « f » runs into the right bar of « |f| ».

However the result with mkiv is correct.

I am attaching the PDF output with LMTX.

Best regards: Otared



> On 15 Jan 2021, at 13:33, Jack Hill <jackhill3103@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've been having some trouble with ConTeXt not typesetting math correctly when using the Pagella font (I do not know if the same issue occurs with other fonts as I haven't tested them).
> 
> If I compile with LMTX, the spacing between letters becomes very small so that when I type "|f|", for example, the second "|" intersects the f and looks rather ugly. However, compiling with the --luatex switch fixes these issues and the math looks nice again.
> 
> Can anybody else replicate this issue, and does anybody know why it is happening?
> 
> This the code I used to test:
> 
> \setupbodyfont[pagella]
> 
> \starttext
> \startformula
> |f| = \sqrt{\int_0^1 |f(t)|^2 \text{d}t}
> \stopformula
> \stoptext
> Jack
> 
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