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What is PSNFSS?

PSNFSS is an abbreviation of 'post script new font selecting system', a terminology from LaTeX. It is an additional package that is usually installed on your LaTeX system. One of its purposes is to access the standard postscript fonts that printers have built in, also known as the thirty five base fonts. Part of psnfss is a set of font metrics (the tfm-files) that allows TeX to use the fonts for typesetting (TeX only knows about metrics, not outlines).

How do I access these fonts from ConTeXt?

If you don't have installed the font metrics with ConTeXt's texfont, you will have to change an internal mapping of filenames with the commands

\usetypescript [adobekb][\defaultencoding]

or whatever encoding you want to use. After that you can setup your font with

\setupbodyfont[pos]

and similar commands.

How do I get ... ?

(make a list for all psnfss fonts)

palatino 

load the typescript palatino like this

\usetypescript[palatino][\defaultencoding]

and switch to palatino with \setupbodyfont

\setupbodyfont[palatino,12pt]