Corrected version!
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Thomas, Luigi—

Thanks for tips: they are much appreciated. 

As it turns out, I had already reinstalled ConTeXt 2008.11.10 21:40 using TimeMachine. 

What is distressing is that the problem remains. I can either set an article with LM and Greek without proper scaling for the Greek or set the article with LM and proper Greek  but without the footnotes (arithmetic overflow).

In the SECOND case, I have

\usetypescript[lmodern][\defaultencoding]
\starttypescript[serif][default][size]
  \definebodyfont[9.5pt,10.5pt][rm][default]
  \definebodyfont[9.5pt,10.5pt][mm][default]
\stoptypescript

and in the FIRST

 \definebodyfont[9.5pt,10.5pt][rm][default]
 \definebodyfont[9.5pt,10.5pt][mm][default]

There is no problem with other text fonts, by the way.

Very frustrating to say the least.

Alan

On Feb 24, 2009, at 08;04,41 , luigi scarso wrote:

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Alan Bowen <acbowen@princeton.edu> wrote:
The minimals (both the stable and the beta versions) in
contextgarden.net/minimals/setup/$platform/bin seem to be frozen at
2009.01.18 14;39.
for me
minimals-beta/tex# context --version
MtxRun | main context file:
/opt/luatex/minimals-beta/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/context.tex
MtxRun | current version: 2009.01.18 14:39


minimals# context --version
MtxRun | main context file:
/opt/luatex/minimals/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/context.tex
MtxRun | current version: 2008.11.10 21:40


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luigi
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